Truth To Power | Building Toward Louisville's Cooperative Future from a Colonial Past | May 14, 2021

On this week's Truth to Power Happy Hour with Justin Mog (Sustainability Now!) & Doug Lowry (Sowers of Justice Network), we bring you a conversation about Louisville’s past & future, moving from a colonial model to a cooperative model, with Delores Butler (President of the Louisville Community Grocery Board) and Teresa Lee, Historic Site Supervisor at Riverside: The Farnsley-Moremen Landing and part of the Louisville Coalition on the History of the Enslaved with representatives from Farmington Historic Plantation, Locust Grove, and Oxmoor Farm.

The next Louisville Community Grocery pop-up shop will be 1-6pm Friday, May 28th at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 1201 S. 26th St.

Learn more at http://louisvillecommunitygrocery.com
https://locustgrove.org/louisvillecoalitiononhistoryoftheenslaved/
http://slavedwellingproject.org
https://riverside-landing.org/

Recommended books:

1. Edward E. Baptist’s “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (2016)
2. Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice” https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06216-7.html
3. Resmaa Menakem’s “My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies”
4. Heather McGhee’s “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together”
5. Ibram X. Kendi’s “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America”

On Truth to Power each week, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else!

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org