Ikimi Dubose-Woodson is the CEO and co-founder of The Roots Fund, a nonprofit that’s working to help people of color pursuing careers in wine-related fields. She says you can find billboards in Black communities that market alcoholic beverages like Hennessy and Cîroc—but in those same communities, you’re not likely to find wineries or wine shops.
Data suggest that there are more than 1100,000 thousand wineries in the U.S., but just over 130 of them are Black-owned.
On Monday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Rose Scott spoke with Dubose-Woodson and Aaron Monu, the co-founder of Wines for the Culture and a Roots Fund Scholar.
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