Black Bostonian communities are building institutions prioritizing asset-based community development, laying the foundations for a local solidarity economy, drawing from past and present efforts for sustainable, people-based planning.
Boston's Black community is creating a new model for bottom-up community economic development, exemplified by initiatives in Roxbury tracing back to historic figures like Malcolm X, Ruth Batson, and Chuck Turner's pursuits for justice.
The late Charles 'Chuck' Turner and his comrades, part of the 1960s Black Boston United Front, left a legacy of community control and self-determination in working-class communities of color, fostering a desire for community-led local economies among Black and Latinx groups in the US since centuries.
Institutions like the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) in Roxbury have been a model of community control since 1986, evolving to establish a community land trust and acquire eminent domain rights in the Dudley Triangle area, showcasing a successful journey from grassroots organizing to substantial community empowerment.
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