Black Owned Businesses

• Kingston, Ont., black-owned businesses brave rain to recognize emancipation

  Despite dreary weather conditions, Kingston's black business owners gathered at city hall to recognize emancipation and to uplift each other.

  Canada

  Jul 29, 2023
  
• Black-owned businesses in Canada making lower profits than others: StatCan

  Statistics Canada says Black-owned businesses in Canada tend to be smaller and perform less well financially than businesses owned by white people or by other racialized groups.

  Canada

  Feb 23, 2023
  
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• Vancouver non-profit helps Black entrepreneurs build their businesses

  The organization, Black Entrepreneurs and Businesses of Canada is holding a free Black Business Summit on Feb. 24 and 25 for everyone who is interested.

  Perspectives

  Feb 2, 2023
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• Black entrepreneurs in Lethbridge share how their identity shapes the way they do business

  ''Lethbridge is a very accepting community and we found instant love wherever we turned to.'

  Features

  Feb 23, 2021
• Feds should require banks to share race related data on services, business groups say

  Nadine Spencer, president of Black Business and Professional Association, says Black business owners grapple with microaggressions, unconscious bias and discrimination in banking.

  Canada

  Feb 6, 2021
• ‘It’s not just a fad’: Black-owned businesses lack support months after George Floyd movement

  Hazel Antwi says support has come to a screeching halt during Ontario's second COVID-19 lockdown, and that may mean a swift end to her small family-owned shop.

  Features

  Feb 3, 2021
• How to support local Black-owned businesses

  Taking part in an online movement is a start, but you can take it a step further advocates say.

  Canada

  Jun 4, 2020