August is Black Business Month!

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Black business owners account for about 10 percent of U.S. businesses and about 30 percent of all minority-owned businesses. (Census)

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New York has the most Black-owned businesses in the U.S. followed by Atlanta. The highest ratio is in Washington, DC where 28% of all businesses are Black-owned.

Historian John William Templeton and engineer Frederick E. Jordan Sr founded National Black Business Month in August 2004 to “drive the policy agenda affecting the 2.6 million African-American businesses.“

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ByBlack the only national certification exclusively for Black-owned businesses. 

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ByBlack is designed to provide Black entrepreneurs a way to reach new customers and get access to valuable business resources

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Part 2 will have suggested reading about Black inventors, businesspeople, and history!

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