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ConnectUP wants to help as many underrepresented business owners as possible get opportunities they might otherwise have been denied through education and character-based lending.
Entrepreneurs Adam Kado and Hosie Thurmond are behind Minneapolis, MN’s first Black-owned pizzeria.
Good news for pizza-lovers: Local New York-style pizzeria Slice Brothers is now open in St. Paul, near the corner of University Avenue and Dale Street. Slice Brothers’ first location opened in 2021 in Northeast Minneapolis — the city’s first Black-owned pizza shop — and then expanded to Midtown Global Market. The St. Paul location is their third; a fourth at the Mall of America is coming soon, ...
With pizza by the slice, Slice Brothers in St. Paul has plenty of seating and a couple arcade games, too.
As U.S. Sen. Tina Smith says, access to banking services for marginalized communities is both an economic driver and a civil rights issue. The bipartisan legislation she has introduced would drastically expand access to startup capital.