In this age of multibillion-dollar credit unions, it can be easy to forget that most started with a small group of people looking to pool their resources.
Well, Jessica Gordon Nembhard is here to remind us. Professor of Community Justice & Social Economic Development in Africana Studies at John Jay College, CUNY and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, she believes that wonderful things can happen when communities come together for mutual aid.
Among other things, we talk about the proliferation of Black cooperative responses during Covid, the importance of credit unions as community assets, opportunities for credit unions to play a more central role in supporting cooperative development and ecosystem building, and the challenges currently facing Black-owned credit unions, including potential strategies to better support these vital community institutions.
We also address this month’s BIG Question:
What role do Black cooperatives currently play in the ongoing fight for economic, racial, and social justice, and what potential is not being realized?
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