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Nikki Porcher, founder of Buy From A Black Woman, highlights Black-owned women businesses across the country.
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Nikki Porcher who is based in Atlanta remains on a mission to uplift and promote Black women entrepreneurs through a nonprofit she founded called Buy From A Black Woman. A business directory she developed is regarded as a trusted one-stop-shop resource for people looking to patronize over 500 Black women-owned businesses. Porcher even landed a yearlong partnership with H&M USA to promote Black women-owned businesses. For example, Black women will have an opportunity to sell their products through pop-ups in H&M USA stores this summer, as a part of a 15-city tour. Additionally, Porcher’s nonprofit received a Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women initiative grant.
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Black women face some of the highest hurdles when trying to start their businesses, and when the COVID-19 pandemic derailed thousands of firms around the United States, they received some of the least support from the government. Today, we are talking about why that was the case, and what some women are doing to change the system.
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Priyanka Tilve produced this episode with Patricia Sabga, Dina Kesbeh, Negin Owliaei, Alexandra Locke, Ney Alvarez, Amy Walters and Malika Bilal.