Marvin X, Organizer, BAMBD Black Vendors Association, at his Academy of  Da Corner, 14th and Broadway, Downtown Oakland CA photo Adam Turner Board of Directors:  Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, James Vorett Copes, Delores Nochi Cooper,  Adama Oshuntoki  Mosley, Ramal Lamar, Tony B. Conscious I first called for Black vendors on the streets of Oakland during the regime of our first Black  Mayor Lionel Wilson. That was in the 80s.  The situation of Black vendors at Lake Merritt   is fluid unless a Black Vendors Association is organized to demand economic equity in the city  North American Africans have made Oakland known throughout the world as The City of  Resistance with the Pullman Porters Union and the Black Panther Party. Marcus Garvey  told us long ago the world is moving against all unorganized people.  So vendors get organized  or suffer the consequences of economic strangulation. In a conversation with brother James Copes...