The History of Black Entrepreneurship and Black-Owned Businesses: Built Without Permission

History of Black entrepreneurship and Black-owned businesses

Key Takeaways Supporting Black-owned businesses strengthens generational wealth and local communities. Black entrepreneurship began as survival and became strategy, ownership, and power. Black-owned businesses built jobs and institutions when systems shut us out. Redlining, segregation, and violence disrupted Black business ownership and wealth. Black entrepreneurship didn’t start as a trendy hashtag or a “support small […]