Image: Art Shaver and Shantae Johnson on their farm in Oregon. By Intisar Abioto/The Guardian.

BOOKS

Jessica Gordon Nembhard: Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.

Leah Penniman: Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land.

Leah Penniman: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty.

Ashanté M. Reese:

• Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
• Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice.

Monica M. White: Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement.

ORGANIZATIONS & FARMS

• Black Food Sovereignty Coalition.
• Black Urban Growers (BUGS).
• Cooperation Jackson.
• Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.
• Earthseed Land Collective.
• Farms to Grow.
• The Federation Of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund.
• Heal Food Alliance.
• Institute of Afrofuturist Ecology.
• The Land Loss Prevention Project.
• Mudbone Grown.
• National Black Food and Justice Alliance.
• New Communities.
• Soul Fire Farm.
• Southeastern African American Farmers Organic Network.
• Southern Grassroots Economies Project: Building Democratic Ownership in the US South.
• Truly Living Well: Center for Natural Urban Agriculture.

ARTICLES

Donnell Alexander: ‘We wanted to work the land with our kids’: the Black US farmers reclaiming the soil: A fledgling movement towards Black-owned farms seeks to address the lack of land ownership and fresh food in many communities of color.

The Black Food Blog.

Dara Cooper: See collection of her articles here.

The Earthseed Blog.

NPR:

• ‘Make Farmers Black Again’: African Americans Fight Discrimination To Own Farmland.
• 5 Decades Later, New Communities Land Trust Still Helps Black Farmers.

Leah Penniman:

• The Guide to Farming While Black.
• Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow.

Tom Philpott: After a Century of Dispossession, Black Farmers Are Fighting to Get Back to the Land.

Ashanté M. Reese: Ashanté Reese on Food Geographies and Food Justice.

Molly Schwartz: The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land.

SNCC Digital Gateway: Fannie Lou Hamer founds Freedom Farm Cooperative.

Ira Wallace: Writer, Seed Saver, Educator.

Monica M. White: See collection of articles at her website.

Malik Yakini:

• The good food revolution: Race, economics, and what local means with Detroit activist and educator Malik Yakini.
• Malik Yakini on Combatting Food Insecurity in Detroit’s Black Community.

VIDEOS & PODCASTS

Dara Cooper: Black Feminist Freedom Dreams: Food Sovereignty and the Urgency of Intersectional Movement Building.

Cultivating Place: Seedkeeper: Ira Wallace.

Jessica Gordon Nembhard: African American Cooperatives and Civil Rights.

Leah Penniman: see her many talks on YouTube here.

Ira Wallace: Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.

Monica M. White:

• Freedom Farmers: Building Sustainable Communities.
• Urban Agriculture & Rebuilding Detroit.
• Food Literacy for All.

Malik Yakini:

• Bioneers Conference: Food, Race and Justice.
• Malik Yakini on Food Apartheid.
• Detroit Urban Agriculture Movement Looks to Reclaim Motor City.