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When so many businesses were closing their doors during the pandemic, Quontay Turner opened the doors of Emerald City Plant Shop in Norwood, the first Black-owned plant shop in New England. Hannah Donnelly shows how it has really blossomed over the last year with support from the community.

Brown & Coconut: plant-based skin care, started by sisters Letisha Izuchi and Zeena Brown, that is taking the beauty world by storm.

A Seat at the Table is a conversation about equity for Black-owned businesses in Boston.

When it comes to building businesses many Black and brown Bostonians have run into persistent barriers.  These obstacles are often related to access to capital and connections.  In “A Seat at The Table” we explore how these struggles affect neighborhoods in communities of color.  We look at liquor licenses and city contracts.  We’ve also got conversations with people working...

When Luciana Daly of Boston lost her job during the COVID-19 pandemic, her side hustle became her moneymaker. “It was truly opportunistic timing,” said Daly. “We were in the house, people wanted to decorate, and I was available with the product.” Her home decor and design business — Ankhara by Luciana — started to take off. “Business just exploded,” said…

A boutique Boston fitness studio is on the move. TRILLFIT, a Black-owned fitness studio in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood, is expanding, after a fateful meeting on a flight, and a pandemic pivot that proved quite fruitful. “We keep getting signs from the universe that this is the path, move forward,” said Heather White, co-founder of TRILLFIT. In the weeks...

Pernell Cezar and Rod Johnson grew up together, started a business together and are giving back to their community together

Hope Wiseman became the youngest Black woman in the country to own a marijuana dispensary when she opened the doors to her business, Mary and Main, in September 2018. Her goal? To educate the Black community in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and beyond about the benefits of marijuana. Black people are three times more likely than white people to be...

It’s the beauty of community. Nyakio Grieco is changing the beauty industry for women of all shades and tells us how, and why.

Kim Harris noticed a problem: When it came to a certain item in her Harlem neighborhood, there was a drought. “I started really liking beer and traveling all over the city to get it, except for the Hamlet of Harlem, [where] I live,” Harris said. Kevin Bradford felt the same way. “You just couldn’t really find a proper craft...

The Boston Black Restaurant Challenge aims to support Black-owned businesses throughout the city, which are struggling through the pandemic

Nearly two years after the start of the pandemic, New York City is welcoming domestic and international tourists back this holiday season. “I see great things for tourism after the pandemic. New York City is going to come back even stronger than before,” says Stacey Toussaint, president and founder of Inside Out Tours. “We paused but we didn’t stop.”

Any New Yorker will tell you that you can “fuhgeddaboudit” but there are some things we shouldn’t simply forget, especially in light of the pandemic, social justice movement and political unrest. For New York City’s Inside Out Tours, they’re on a mission to make sure tourists leave with a better understanding of the past, present and future of the city,...

One small business is changing the game when it comes to classic New York City tourism by putting a spotlight on the moments in history where civil rights were at risk. Know Your Rights: From the Central Park Five to the Present is a new virtual experience hosted by Inside Out Tours, a full-service DMC and receptive tour operator offering…

From mutating strains to controversial vaccine mandates, the coronavirus pandemic has forced demanding questions and pressure on New York business. Small business owners are finding ways to survive the virus unknowns and look past the pressing hurdles. Over the summer, Facebook and the Small Business Roundtable conducted a survey with more than 35,000 small business leaders, across 30 countries and…

A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York City in 2019 and business was booming for Stacey Toussaint, founder of diversity and inclusion-centered Inside Out Tours. But when the coronavirus pandemic brought the city to a standstill, Toussaint was left to figure out how to keep her tourism business running when there simply were no tourists.

NBC gave three business owners cameras to document their journey as they fought through shutdowns, positive coronavirus tests, and a test of their pandemic endurance. The owners of Dallas’ Recipe Oak Cliff, Philadelphia’s Kayuh Bicycles & Café, and the CEO of Boston’s Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center joined NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson to talk about how they rebounded from unforeseen...

See why Recipe Oak Cliff, a plant-based restaurant in Dallas, Texas, closed its kitchen and launched a virtual series of healthy recipes for “one more pandemic pivot.”

See why Recipe Oak Cliff, a plant-based restaurant in Dallas, Texas, closed its kitchen and launched a virtual series of healthy recipes for “one more pandemic pivot.”

After facing positive coronavirus tests, shutdowns and a citywide bus crisis, Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center looks toward the future and makes plans for how they’re going to adapt. Despite the hardships they’ve faced during the pandemic, Sportsmen’s says it’s committed to taking whatever new challenges arise so they can continue to support families across...