Join us on Thursday, June 24 from 6–7:30 p.m. outside of the Franklin and Friendship stores and streaming on Facebook for live DJs, community art-making, and the ceremonial donation of artists’ 2020 murals to Memorialize the Movement. Before the event, you can download our free virtual Abolition Art Kit. This kit has resources and ideas for… Read More →
Work is being done to line up local artists to assist community members to create art on the boards at Seward Co-op’s buildings.
The event series “Co-op Conversations: Exploring the intersection of racial, social, and food justice” is a community engagement and class series collaboratively presented by Eastside Food Co-op, Mississippi Market Food Co-op, Seward Community Co-op, The Wedge, and Linden Hills Co-op as a way to examine and connect our cooperative values with social justice movements. We…
What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. June 19, 1865, is significant because it was the date Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the U.S. Civil War had ended and the enslaved were free. This event occurred almost two…
