The #BuyBlack30Challenge Encourages the Support of Black Owned Businesses Locally & Nationally

@BuyBlack30 co-founders Dorissa White and Kiera Mallett created the #BuyBlack30Challenge to encourage a month of exclusively buying black. The campaign was prompted by the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. Participants can do their part locally by ordering from black-owned restaurants in NYC like Home Sweet Harlem, Melba’s.and Brooklyn Chop House in FiDi.

BUY BLACK 30 is proposing a four-phase plan that is broken down into four weeks, which will get participants acclimated into a new way of shopping and using their money. The plan includes: canceling all streaming services that are not black-owned, shopping at black-owned retailers exclusively, dining at black-owned establishments exclusively and circulating dollars with black-owned banks. They have provided resources on social media platforms, which includes websites that they hope makes it easier for participants in the challenge.

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