[Editor's note: below are two videos that, while separated by over 50 years in time, share a common theme. First, Ed Whitfield of the Fund for Democratic Communities and Renaissance Community Co-op, dicusses cooperative economics in the context of reparations for historical and on-going racial injustice. Then, in priceless archival footage, Father Albert McKnight from Lafayette, LA discusses the founding and operation of the Southern Consumers' Co-op, their impressive growth, and the many obstacles these Black cooperators had to overcome in building a better life for themselves.]

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