Material Artifact:

100% cotton denim bag, 23” x 13.5”; 11” handles. Knit, cut, sewn, and printed in South Central Los Angeles. Ships within 1 to 3 business days.

Design Hypothesis: Group Economics

1968, New Communities Inc: Former SNCC Southwest Georgia project director Charles Sherrod and six others traveled to Israel to study their kibbutz (land trust) system. When the group returned, they convened a meeting in Atlanta with representatives from a dozen civil rights organizations with the intention of establishing cooperative farming and homestead leases in the American South. By 1969, New Communities, Inc., the largest Black-owned farm cooperative in the United States, was founded. Participant Mtamanika Youngblood explained, “The idea behind New Communities was to take civil rights one step further into economic independence and economic rights, using agriculture as an economic base.” (Excerpt from SNCC Digital)

2021: I’m just trynna secure a bag with the homies, it’s in my nature and I’m gonna nurture it.

A study of Nature and Post-Colonialism, care of Marvin James and NNEOMA.