Free African Society

That's roughly 11 million.

Um, what type of initiatives or what type of maybe advice would you give to, to, um, people who want to start co-ops when it comes to food? I understand the food b- existing food banks, but, you know, there's a deep history that African Americans have with cooperatives, whether it's the Free African Society in 1787, the Free African Union, 1780, and it looks like that we're going to have to rely upon cooperatives more.

more.As opposed to a- a- as these government benefits are, are being unjustly cut.

So are there any encouraging signs that you're seeing, or initiatives that you're seeing on the ground regarding this?

for us to be human amongst ourselves and with others.

So the AMU Church comes into existence 1787 out of the Free African Society, which was a mutual aid society where free Africans and Africans of means pooled their resources together to help many Africans who were escaping to Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia, because it was free country.

If you got there, you would be quote unquote

free.