Courtney Kosek
Writer and podcaster appearing as the episode's featured guest to discuss Black cooperative farming history and the Colored Farmers Alliance, drawing on her research and storytelling expertise.
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Feb 23, 2026 • 60min
Part One: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US
Courtney Kosek, writer and podcaster who researches Black cooperative history, explores the Colored Farmers Alliance and Black cooperative farming. She traces sharecropping, debt peonage, and land reform context. Conversations cover Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm model, the mechanics of crop liens, and how mutual aid and secret-society structures supported Black farmers.
