The Power of Black Cooperative Economics with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard

Credit unions, housing co-ops, CSAs... Black folks have been building and benefitting from cooperative economics for decades, particularly in parts of the economy where we’ve been cut out by the major institutions. As Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard points out, we all participate in some form of cooperative economics when we use the informal economy. In this episode, we dig into the power that we could amass if we took cooperative economics to scale. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation’s largest non-profit Black media company - hit us up at BlackHistoryYear.com and share this with your people!

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Useful links:

“Economic Co-Operation Among Negro Americans” by W.E.B. DuBois

The Freedom Georgia Initiative

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