The #BuyBlack30Challenge Encourages the Support of Black Owned Businesses Locally & Nationally
3 min readJun 3, 2020
@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…