Before launching The Next System Project, we sat down with historian and economic activist Jessica Gordon Nembhard to learn what the tradition of Black cooperative economic development and the long struggle for civil rights could teach us about system change and system models. Read on for an edited transcript of that conversation.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard is Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College, of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice (2014). In this exclusive interview with the Democracy Collaborative's Keane Bhatt, she describes her visions for system change and their foundations in the history of Black cooperative economic development... Read full article