I am part of this community. I grew up in this community…Everything that they [The African People’s Education and Defense Fund] bring into this community beautifies this community and helps us in ways that the city refuses to do.

I discovered the Gary Brooks Community Garden and Black Power Blueprint through the Ervin Scholars program at WashU. I love volunteering because I love to be surrounded by a community who loves helping and giving back to others. This organization makes me feel so welcome to be a part of something…. And gardening is so therapeutic to do. I love this!

My husband and I truly enjoy and appreciate the opportunities to financially contribute to the African People's Defense Fund and Uhuru, because of their exceptional work to lift up the lives of so many neglected communities. Their emphasis is on helping to bring Black communities and individuals to the table of life, where they have been shut out by historic and current governmental and societal practices. This organization is phenomenally successful and their many projects are tangible, life changing structures in some of the most disenfranchised areas of the U.S. Chuck and I cannot participate in person to help restore justice, hope and hands-on help to people, but we can give from our hearts as a form of reparations to the Black community.