In Baltimore, there is a place, a place called Tubman House, named after the legendary Harriot Tubman. Tubman took matters into her own hands and made her own life.

Tubman House is a community project, a vacant plot of land growing food, community, self respect, self determination and love.

Rapper and activist Son of Nun talked to the economist about the project, about how the government doesn’t and won’t likely provide the answers and more in the great video below

“We don’t always need to wait for the government to give us permission to do something, we can rely upon ourselves”