Category: #BuyBlack

By Anna Kang, Forbes After over 35 years of making syrup through her company Michele Foods in South Holland, Illinois, founder and CEO Michele Hoskins found herself at an impasse. Even though her products were on the shelves of major supermarket chains such as Kroger KR +1.7% and Publix, she simply didn’t have the marketing budget necessary to increase consumer […]

By Louise Connelly, CNBC In the days following the death of George Floyd, Brooklyn-based entrepreneur Aurora James was skeptical of the deluge of corporate support for the Black community. “As a Black woman, and also as a business owner, I was reading it, but I wasn’t necessarily feeling it to be true,” said James, who runs […]

By Dana Givens, Black Enterprise West African cuisine has gained new popularity over the last few years due to the rise of prominent high-profile restaurants turning up in major cities across the country. A couple based in Chicago went ahead and took a step further by creating a new line of frozen West African meals available at Whole […]

By Abner Li, 9to5Google Last month, CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google would “develop initiatives and product ideas that support long-term solutions” for the Black community. One of these efforts is a way for Black-owned businesses to identify themselves in Google Maps and Search, with that attribute launching today. This marker comes as Google has noted a recent “surge in online […]

By Dana Givens, Black Enterprise Vintage shopping goods have become a widely successful niche market in various sectors, however, many BIPOC-owned brands have trouble getting mainstream placements inside boutiques due to a lack of diversity. One Chicago-based woman decided to use the opportunity to create a new marketplace to help spotlight brands from women and entrepreneurs of […]

The brand, which is among the most recognizable magazines in the U.S., is not going away but will become more “more digitally-centric,” a magazine spokeswoman said. By Tali Arbel, HuffPost O, The Oprah Magazine is ending its regular monthly print editions with the December 2020 issue after 20 years of publication. The brand, which is […]

Whether you prefer red, white, rosé or Champagne, we talked to wine experts who have a new brand for you to try. By Ambar Pardilla, HuffPost No matter what you’re buying, where you spend your money can make a big difference — especially now, when so many small businesses have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. That’s […]

After years of working in states across the US, engineer and entrepreneur Brian Rice decided he wanted to invest in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. By Ivana Davidovic, BBC News He had enough cash to buy eight buildings, all around 100 years old, in his majority black neighbourhood of Ensley, but he needed a banking […]

By Zack Linly, The Root When we talk about white privilege and systemic racism, one thing that always comes up is generational wealth. It’s a thing white people disproportionately benefit from and a thing that is virtually nonexistent for Black people, as history has shown us far more instances of Black wealth being sabotaged (*cough* Black […]