Supporting female minority-owned businesses

This section of Lady ChangeMakers is dedicated to minority female business owners.

44% of women-owned businesses are minority-owned. While it’s exciting to see this many POC starting businesses the number is rooted in systemic racism.

The majority of these women state that they started a business do to work environments. Whether it was being overlooked for a raise or promotion, hostile environments or being overworked. These women saw starting their own business as their only way to move up.

Resources

See Available Resources for female minority business owners

How to support Black Women & The Black community

It is up to all of us to stand up and fight for injustice. Educate yourself and take action. Education is not enough. It is not enough to sit back unless action is taken. Below are several resources on how you can support the Black community and WOC business owners.

Would like to thank Sarah Sophie Flicker & Alyssa Klein for compiling this doc where many of the resources below were found.

Amplify voices of Black women

Below is a group of women to follow who are fighting every day to make change. Please learn from them and support them.

Follow & learn from these women

Donations & Funds

There are several ways you can support the Black community.

Places to donate for activism:

Black Visions Collective

Unicorn Riot

Reclaim the Block

North Star Health Collective

Contribute to local community Bail Funds – article found here with different city’s bail funds or here

Additional Bail Funds google docs and harmed black-owned businesses here FightForBreonna.org

Support Black-Owned Businesses

Put your money where your mouth is and make sure you are supporting black businesses

Directory for black owned businesses

Podcasts

Take a good look at your podcast playlist, what do you see? Diversify what you listen to.

Places to donate for activism:

A directory of black podcast hosts

Fare of the Free Child Podcast

Sistahs Connect Podcast

Blk Pod Collective Podcast

Fruitloops Podcast

Brown Ambition Podcast

Be Well, Sis Podcast

Support Is Sexy®️ Podcast

Melanated Conversations® Podcast

Melanated Mom Podcast

The Mocha Message Podcast

First Name Basis Podcast

Parenting Forward Podcast

Educate Yourself

It’s important to educate yourself and learn about your privilege.

Follow the ladies listing above and learn from them

A great online bookstore to support is the Decolonize Your Mind

Support and learn from Rachel Cargle’s Unlearn Project

Rachel Ricketts has books, courses and consultation opportunities

Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup

America’s Racial Contract Showing Article

Creating Parenting and Education Resources through a Critical Race Lens Membership

Videos

There are important videos you can watch regarding race, privilege, and what you can do to support the black community

13th – Netflix

Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives video

How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion video

American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent

Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent

I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy

If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu

Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent

King In The Wilderness — HBO

See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent

The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax

When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Books

Pick up a book and learn

Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Socials to Follow

Follow the below accounts and learn from them, support them and take action with them

United We Dream: Twitter |Instagram |Facebook

Antiracism Center: Twitter

Audre Lorde Project: Twitter|Instagram| Facebook

Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter|Instagram| Facebook

Color Of Change: Twitter|Instagram | Facebook

Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

The Conscious Kid: Twitter| Instagram| Facebook

Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter| Instagram| Facebook

Families Belong Together: Twitter| Instagram| Facebook

The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter| Instagram| Facebook

MPowerChange: Twitter| Instagram| Facebook

Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

NAACP: link textTwitter | link textInstagram | link textFacebook

National Domestic Workers Alliance: |Instagram | Facebook

RAICES: Twitter |Instagram | Facebook

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Grants x Loans x Programs x Funding for Minority-Owned Businesses

General Resources

MBDA

MBDA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that promotes the growth of minority-owned businesses through the mobilization and advancement of public and private sector programs, policy, and research.

The foundation’s advisory board chooses the winners, looking for women with passion and a good story. Businesses operating in the U.S. and Canada are eligible.

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Program

8(a) Business Development program

If willing to put in the time and effort getting into this program can have a big payoffs for minority owned businesses.

Once accepted businesses would be awarded government contracts without the worry of competing bids. The government’s goal is to award at least 5% of all federal contracting dollars to small disadvantaged businesses each year.

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