Feed Black Futures

Join FBF for a virtual Know Your People, Know Your Power Workshop led by Al Brooks (he/him), civil rights lawyer, educator, and community organizer.

Together, we’ll discuss:
• ICE interactions
• Police interactions
• Protest safety
• Rights and relationships
• Organizing ourselves for resilience
• How we keep each other safe

Al Brooks is the co-founder/co-lead organizer of Unlock the Bar and approaches transformative justice through a Black Q***r Feminist lens. As a community organizer, attorney, and educator, Al has worked alongside movements and organizations fighting for collective liberation, including BYP100, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Legal Defense Fund, and more.

This workshop is for community members who want practical tools, political grounding, and collective strategies for navigating this moment with greater clarity, safety, and care.

The Feed Black Futures Leadership Council (LC) is a 18-month leadership, mutual aid, and skill-building experience for farmers, leaders, and organizers with an orientation towards Black liberation, land equity, abolition, and food and land sovereignty.

We are seeking people in Oakland and neighboring cities with an interest or experience in campaign development, basebuilding, land stewardship, and land project development to join our existing cohort.

If you’re interested be sure to register for our zoom info session on Monday, June 15 from 6-7 pm. Send this post to someone you think would be a good fit for our LC!

Be sure to register via Zoom if you can make it. We’ll send a copy of the recording out to all registrants.

SPRING EQUINOX PARTY: A Day of Renewal, Community & Celebration.

Welcome the new season with us at a full‑day gathering rooted in healing, land connection, food knowledge, creativity, and joy. Our Spring Equinox Party brings together local healers, growers, artists, and culture‑keepers for a celebration of community care and seasonal transition.

✨ Workshops & Offerings

Healing & Movement
Freedom Community Clinic — Craniosacral Therapy & Acupuncture
Santos Soul — Tai Chi
Earth‑Based Learning
Creation of Society — Moringa Workshop: regenerative ecosystems & community health
Evin — Rites of Spring: herbal workshop initiation into the season
Vanessa — Spring Planting Workshop: awakening your garden for the new year
Ashia — Fabulous Fungi: mushroom bucket inoculation
Becca — Pickling Veggies: preservation as care, culture & connection
Community Connections & Bingo — What do we gain by talking to one another?

Food Access
Free Grocery Giveaway — Fresh produce bags provided by Mandela Partners
(Please bring a reusable bag if you have one.)

🎶 Live Music All Day
DJ Mook WAV spinning a global mix of: R&B • Funk • Tabla • Merengue • Pop • Trap • Hip‑Hop

🎁 Raffle Offerings
The Sanctuary — Herbal Tea
Queen Hippie Gypsy — Spiritual Wellness Products & Services
Marcus Book Stores — $50 Gift Card
Cafe Colucci — $50 Gift Card
Create Moringa University Society — Moringa Oil & Tea
Mandela Grocery Cooperative — $50 Gift Card
The Herbal Alchemist Natural Skincare — $50 in products

Who doesn’t love a raffle? FBF’s Spring Equinox Party will feature amazing prizes from local BIPOC artists and small business owners! All proceeds go directly to our Mutual Aid fund, managed by our Leadership Council. Mutual aid is a practice of solidarity where we meet community needs and address the root causes of injustice together.
Raffle Rules:
🎟️ 2 tickets for $5
🎟️ Complete a workshop and get 2 free tickets!
🎟️ Registered attendees receive 1 free ticket (be sure to check in at the welcome table!)

We can’t wait to see you there! 🌸

The Feed Black Futures Leadership Council is activating our Mutual Aid Fund! This fund connects our community to vital resources, from food and health related resources to transportation and childcare.

We encourage you to apply if you:

•Identify as Black, Afro-Indigenous, or part of the African Diaspora,
•Reside in or serve Oakland, Hayward, or Sacramento communities with limited access to fresh, culturally relevant foods and/or
•Are experiencing temporary or ongoing need due to economic hardship, displacement, or health-related instability

To apply you can fill the form out in our linktree.

🌸 You’re invited! 🌼

Feed Black Futures
Spring Equinox Community Gathering
A Day of Renewal, Skill-Sharing, and Collective Care
March 21 | 12:00–5:00 PM

The Spring Equinox marks longer days, returning light, and the steady work of planting what will sustain us. Feed Black Futures invites you to sponsor a community gathering that honors this moment through food, history, movement, and shared practice.

This gathering is about building real tools for resilience, reconnecting neighbors to one another, and remembering that food has always been a site of care, resistance, and possibility.

Registration luma link in our bio! See you there family.

UPDATE: There are some food boxes still available. However, just beware the office and team of Feed Black Futures will be closed from December 22nd til January 2nd. We apologize for the inconvenience.

When SNAP falls short, we feed each other.

Feed Black Futures is responding to recent SNAP cuts by offering emergency food boxes and direct food aid to community members most impacted.

If you or someone you know needs support, fill out our Emergency Food Box Intake linked in our bio. We are supporting community members in East Oakland, West Oakland, Hayward, and Sacramento’s Del Paso Heights region.

Please scan the QR code above or find the link in our bio.

We’re prioritizing Black, Indigenous, and people of color, caregivers, mamas, and those impacted by the carceral system. To ensure that those most harmed by systemic inequities are nourished first.

Collective care is how we survive and how we thrive.

FBF is nourishing our community year round.

DONATE TODAY!

Support culturally grounded groceries, fresh produce from BIPOC farmers, and long-term food sovereignty work across the Bay Area, Sacramento, and the Central Valley.

Link in bio.

Update: role is filled.

We’re hiring!

🌿 Feed Black Futures seeks two Oakland-based leaders: Organizing & Basebuilding Manager + Events & Culture Manager. Full-time hybrid. Help grow Black food sovereignty + joy. Apply: [email protected]

On Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday, we honor her as a farmer + freedom fighter. 🌱 With July Forward, we revitalized community garden beds so 28 lots can thrive again. Farming is freedom and her vision for food sovereignty lives on. ✊🏿