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Akoma Market brings equity, wellness and great food to deep East Oakland
The Sunday market features local Black and brown-owned farm stands, food vendors and other small businesses.
Liberation Park, 7101 Foothill Blvd. (at 73rd Avenue), Oakland
Akoma Outdoor Market is a farmers market in deep East Oakland that features local Black and brown-owned farm stands, food vendors and other small businesses.
Created through a partnership between the Black Cultural Zone, a nonprofit promoting Black cultural traditions, arts and local businesses in East Oakland, and the Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce, Akoma launched last September, running on the first Sunday of every month. Since February, Akoma Outdoor Market became a bi-monthly event, now taking place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., first and third Sundays. (In May through October, Akoma Market will transition to a weekly Sunday event before returning to its first Sunday schedule in November and December.) The next event is this