The Black Radical Tradition is integrally tied to the Land as place of resistance, provider of camouflage, comfort, and care. This work posits that Black cooperative economic and land stewardship practices are archival praxis and cultural work, aiding the preservation, nourishment, resistance, and cultivation of revolutionary optimism in Black communities. This study examines the history of land-based movements in the Black Belt region of the colonized lands known as the United States, including the Freedom Farm Cooperative and the Republic of New Afrika. Using archival research and oral histories this work seeks to understand how revolutionary culture is built through the lenses of lifestyle politics and cooperative economics via the use of dialectical materialist and Africana Critical Theory methods of analysis.