Building Cooperative Economics and Movement Community Institutions

“If the unemployment rate for Black Americans (11.5%) is more than twice that of White Americans (5.4%), then the time is ripe for serious conversation about the economic dimensions of the Black Freedom Struggle. Please join us in a discussion first about the long history of African American cooperative economics, both in thought and in action; second about the ways that communities take care of business in Black Freedom Struggle; and third about the important community institutions developed by groups such as the Black Panther Party that struggled against the savage inequalities of Medical Apartheid. To lead this conversation, we have asked three doctors to outline their prescriptions for these crises.”

—Komozi Woodard