On the opening day of the 13th Annual Black Farmers & Urban Gardeners (BUGs) Conference, the National Black Food and Justice Alliance (NBFJA) proudly hosted our second Flourish Film Fest, an immersive film and food experience that brought our people together to witness stories rooted in land, memory, and collective liberation.

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On September 26, 2025, the world learned of the passing of freedom fighter, Assata Shakur. NBFJA co-founder and former executive director, Dara Cooper, reflects on her organizing with the Hands Off Assata Campaign and how it led to her first meeting co-founder Baba Malik Yakini in Detroit, who supported the campaign locally. Listen as she shares the deep ties our founders have to Assata and why, for over two decades, it has been vital to lift up her name while she was targeted as an enemy of the state and why it remains just as important now as we honor her as an ancestor.

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