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Celebrate National Popcorn Day at this Black-owned small business that sells 40 different flavors of popcorn Mama Moore’s Gourmet Popcorn in Grand Prairie is giving away treats all day Tuesday. Mama Moore's Gourmet Popcorn, a Black-owned small business in Grand Prairie, sells 40 different kinds of popcorn.(Courtesy Mama Moore's Gourmet Popcorn) “What’s important to me is my customers having a good experience,” Debra Moore said. Moore started Mama Moore’s Gourmet Popcorn in 2012, selling fresh-popped kettle corn at area fairs and festivals. The veteran had worked in manufacturing and...

Patsy Gilreath Moore, affectionately known as “Mama Moore,” was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on Dec. 22, 1940. She was the eldest of seven children born to Greene and Grace Dean Gilreath. As a young girl, she had a love for books, reading, and playing the piano. During her teenage years, she was a pianist at Saint Home United Methodist Church. In 1958, she graduated salutatorian from Lincoln High School, and in 1962, she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in both French and English from Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. She moved to Miami, Florida, in 1962 an...