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Black Businesses Are Buckling Under the Threat of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating effect on small businesses across the country, but black-owned businesses are likely to feel it more severely—and for a longer period of time. “Black people represent about 13 percent of the population But only 4.3 percent of the nation’s 22 million business owners,” Andre Perry, a fellow at the…
Kimberly is Washington, D.C.-based business journalist. Kimberly grew up in St. Louis, which is in the Midwest, but her friends insist she’s Southern.