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Feb 27, 2021 · Our guide of Black-owned businesses spans across shopping categories like beauty, home and kitchen, fashion and more. We’ve also confirmed that each company is at least 51% Black-owned,...
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- Sincerely, Tommy. Sincerely, Tommy is a Brooklyn-based concept store by Kai Avent-deLeon that stocks the coolest emerging brands, often at rather accessible prices.
- T.A. New York. is a new NYC-based concept store owned by Telsha Anderson. If you're not in NYC, you can still shop the tightly edited selection of indie brands online.
- Union Los Angeles. Union first opened in 1989 in NYC to "showcase what the local community of kids were up to with music, art and fashion," according to its website.
- The Folklore. The Folklore is an NYC-based online store that stocks Africa and the diaspora's contemporary designers, such as Third Crown, pictured above.
Shopping while black" is a phrase used for the type of marketplace discrimination that is also called "consumer racial profiling", "consumer racism" or "racial profiling in a retail setting", as it applies to black people. Shopping while black is the experience of being denied service or given poor service because one is black.
- Brandon Blackwood. After studying Neuroscientist Psychology in college (yeah, you read that right), Brandon Blackwood decided he wanted to pursue a career in fashion.
- Sabai Design. This direct-to-consumer furniture company makes just a handful of pieces — a sofa, a sectional, a chair and an ottoman — but they fit with endless styles.
- Post 21 Shop. This marketplace for Black makers sells beautifully designed home decor, fashion accessories, wellness products and more. The mother-daughter founders, Juana Williams and Blair Paysinger, chose the name Post 21 to pay tribute to the famous "Black Wall Street" district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was destroyed by the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921.
- K-Apostrophe. Los Angeles artist K'era Morgan creates home goods including luxurious tapestries, knit blankets, throw pillows and notebooks (made in the USA!)
Jan 10, 2023 · Our analysis suggests that Black consumers’ spending on apparel and footwear will grow by about 6 percent a year to $70 billion in nominal dollars by 2030.
Jun 5, 2020 · There are countless Black-owned businesses that sell online and ship all over the U.S. Here are just a few of the ones PEOPLE editors love — from fashion and beauty brands to home decor and...
Aug 29, 2018 · Shopping While Black: Why I’m No Longer Afraid to Call Time on Racial Profiling. By Janelle Okwodu. August 29, 2018. Illustration by Jon Han. When you think of retail snobbery, Pretty Woman is...
