This Week on Everything Co-op: Malik Yakini & Lanay Gilbert-Williams discuss the Food Sovereignty Movement & the Detroit People’s Food Co-op

Tune in to WOL 1450 AM, 95.9 FM and WOL Livestreamon April 4, 2024, 10:30 am - 11:30 am, Eastern, for Everything Co-op, hosted by Vernon Oakes. This week, Vernon interviewed Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), and Lanay Gilbert-Williams, Board President of the Detroit People's Food Co-op. Vernon and his guests will discuss the food sovereignty movement and the Detroit Peoples Food Co-op.

Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator committed to freedom and justice for African people and humanity in general. Yakini is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a seven-acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to establish the Detroit Food Policy Council. He served as a Michigan Food Policy Council member from 2008 - 2010. From 2011 - 2013, he served on the steering committee of Uprooting Racism Planting Justice. He is a co-founder and on the leadership team of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance.

Lanay Gilbert-Williams is a native Detroiter who serves as the Board President of the Detroit People's Food Co-op. She founded Detroit's Brown Moms Sisterhood Circle, a system of support for African-American mothers, especially those whose children are in the foster care system. She is also the President of the Wildemere Park Neighborhood Association and theYouth Program Coordinator for Know Allegiance Nation. As a proud Mom of 6, she is dedicated to assisting in developing solutions that model nation and community-building for Black youth.