The National Cooperative Business Association’s, Coop 101: What is a coop? video series, is a great way to begin learning about cooperatives.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard the author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice shares of the history of African American cooperative economics and what role the cooperative model can play today at Main Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library – March 5th 2017
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice from Human-Kind Productions on Vimeo.
African-Americans have long been at the forefront of collective economics. In this Twin Cities PBS Original discusses how cooperatives go against the grain of exploitative capitalism, and how many influential Black figures called for making wealth in a different way – together.