Our guide to the locally, black owned businesses to know in Nashville. Although black players were getting noticed, they were also being tested to see how well they could endure the racist jeers from the heckling crowds and objections from new teammates at having to play with African-Americans on their team. On Thursday, Yelp said it would be introducing a search tool in the coming weeks for businesses to identify as black-owned.
Black owned businesses in the United States increased 34.5% between 2007 and 2012 totaling 2.6 million Black firms. The renewed interest has taken the form of widely shared hashtags, resource guides, Google Docs and apps consumers can utilize to show support for the black community, following the death of George Floyd.
She has developed bilingual, culturally appropriate entrepreneurial training programs; trained and coached pre-venture and startups; developed international networks promoting partnerships among private corporations that boost industries; provided consulting services to vulnerable communities to explore entrepreneurship as a way to generate wealth; and owned her own business consulting firm.
In addition to the more prominent businesses listed above, African Americans have strong traditions of owning and operating small businesses such as restaurants, drug stores, newsstands, corner stores, candy shops, liquor stores, groceries, bars, and gas stations.
I polled various Black community online spaces to see if they have had to hide their identity — company name, branding, marketing — in order to build their businesses. Some organizations that provide
black owned business listings also go out of their way to help their members secure financing to realize their dreams.
Alt.Consulting was dedicated to starting, growing, transitioning and turning around micro-enterprises and small businesses in the Arkansas Delta until a successful merger with Community Resource Group in 2014 formed Communities Unlimited, Inc. Glass Chariot Boutique is a black-owned business in Jacksonville, Florida.