Social Justice Saturday: Supporting Black-owned Businesses with our Holiday Shopping

The Boston Globe has added specific focus on news about and ideas from the black community in Boston. In one recent story they interviewed the woman who owns Olives & Grace gift shop in the South End. It appears that Target gives people ordering online a choice of purchasing items they source from black owned companies. Apparently Etsy, Amazon and others do that, too. This information helps us make purchasing decisions to support black business owners — a concrete way to advance racial economic justice that's so long overdue.

These actions are important, especially since black (and woman) owned businesses have more difficulty accessing capital to fund their growth - they need to fund their growth through revenue/income.

You can find a list of black-owned businesses here.

https://www.bostonblackbiz.com/location/