Last updated June 27, 9:31 p.m.
Atlanta resident Nikki Porcher started Buy From A Black Woman, Inc. after she went to an event for entrepreneurs in the city and didn’t see any Black-owned businesses.
That was back in 2016. The nonprofit’s directory of more than 500 Black women-owned businesses was created to raise awareness of the companies and to help fund them.
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