popolo, (Italian: “people”), in the communes (city-states) of 13th-century Italy, a pressure group instituted to protect the interests of the commoners (actually, wealthy merchants and businessmen) against the nobility that up to then had exclusively controlled commune governments.

Can you eat Popolo berries?

The fully ripe black berries of the pōpolo (S. americanum) were enjoyed by early Hawaiians; however, the green berries are poisonous, containing solanine along with other nightshade toxins. The leaves were wrapped in ti leaves, cooked in an imu and eaten in times of food scarcity.

What is the Popolo project?

The Pōpolo Project is a Hawai’i-based nonprofit organization that redefines what it means to be Black in Hawai’i and in the world through cultivating radical reconnection to ourselves, our community, our ancestors, and the land, changing what we commonly think of as Local and highlighting the vivid, complex diversity …