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This panel examines the cooperative economies of African descended people in Canada, the U.S., and the Caribbean. The reckoning is that no one has to teach or train people of African descent about cooperativism, the concept of pooling goods to counter elite-driven capitalist models is how many excluded Black people push against business exclusion. Mainstream social economy literature often ignores or does not credit Africana people for their role in cooperative building. To correct the erasure, the Diverse Solidarities Economies Collective (DISE) is intentional in its knowledge sharing about member-owned institutions among people of African descent. The practice and theory of Black cooperative systems can be useful to scholars and practitioner in the mainstream social economy and cooperative sectors to move away from the colonial library. In this panel, feminist scholars introduce an abundance of Black political economy scholarship relevant which is relevant for those interested in solidarity economic research and to show how the application of the research can be carried out in society.