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Emerald City Plant Shop: Celebrating One Year of Roots in Norwood
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.
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Brown & Coconut: Minimal, Plant-Based Skin Care With Maximum Impact
Brown & Coconut: plant-based skin care, started by sisters Letisha Izuchi and Zeena Brown, that is taking the beauty world by storm.
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A Seat at the Table: Black-Owned in Boston Part 1
A Seat at the Table is a conversation about equity for Black-owned businesses in Boston.
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A Seat at the Table: Black-Owned 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...
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Black Entrepreneurs in Boston Reaching Clients Through Instagram
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…
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‘Nothing Is Impossible': Boston Fitness Studio Booming, Focused on Expanding
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...
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Grounds For Hope: This Black-Owned Coffee Company Donates Proceeds to Kids in Need
Pernell Cezar and Rod Johnson grew up together, started a business together and are giving back to their community together
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Entrepreneur Hope Wiseman Is Eroding the Stigma of Marijuana in Black Communities
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...
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The Beauty of Inclusion: A Black-Owned Beauty Brand for Women of All Shades
It’s the beauty of community. Nyakio Grieco is changing the beauty industry for women of all shades and tells us how, and why.
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A Trio of HBCU Grads Brought Black-Owned Craft Beer to Harlem
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...
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The Push to Support Boston's Black-Owned Businesses This February
The Boston Black Restaurant Challenge aims to support Black-owned businesses throughout the city, which are struggling through the pandemic
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Seeing Opportunity After Pandemic ‘Pause'
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.”
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Tour Company Bridges The Gap Between New York's Past, Present and Future
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,...
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Know Your Rights: New NYC Virtual Tour Examines Past Injustice & Aims to Educate
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…
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NYC Tour Company Drives Forward with Diverse Social Mission
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…
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One Step at a Time: Moving Tourism Forward When a City Shuts Down
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.
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Rebound Season 4: Small Business Roundtable
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...
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Why This Plant-Based Café Went Virtual in ‘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.”
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Why This Dallas Café Went Virtual: ‘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.”
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Despite COVID Challenges, Tennis Center Swings Back to Serve Boston Families
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...