Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles on Both Coasts Closing After Decades

October 11, 2023  by HFBusiness Staff in Business Strategy, Industry   

Since the 1980s and ‘90s Uhuru Furniture has provided free furniture donation pick-up services and Uhuru on the Move’s moving services. We have resold gently used furniture and household goods at affordable prices, saving thousands of tons of furniture from the landfill. Uhuru Furniture has also provided volunteer opportunities, job training and work experience.

“We have been through many ups and downs, but now we are facing a situation where the U.S. economy is in a crisis. Throughout the U.S., small businesses and large corporations alike are closing their stores,” according to a post on the Uhuru Furniture Site & Blog.

The post continues, “Skyrocketing rents, rising prices of gas, food and goods across the board have created untenable conditions, especially for African, Indigenous, Mexican and Puerto Rican communities in the U.S. In an economy that is based on the exploitation of oppressed peoples, these communities and our small businesses are hit the hardest.”

The cost of doing business keeps so many African and other underserved communities from long term success. It is a victory for these black-owned institutions to have made it for over three decades through conditions that normally keep the black community out of the economic arena. It is a statement of the tremendous support from the community for what Uhuru Furniture stands for and the mission of APEDF.

As economic development institutions of the nonprofit APEDF, the Uhuru Furniture stores have stood for the right of the African community to have self-determination. APEDF has shown through Uhuru Furniture and its other programs what self-determination for the African community looks like through these on-the-ground institutions, taking it from an idea to a concrete reality that the community can interact with and support.

Hundreds of thousands of people have chosen to shop, donate and volunteer at Uhuru Furniture because they support APEDF programs putting power in the hands of the African working-class. Visit the site for ways to continue to support these communities.