In an effort to support the ”Buy Black” movement, we have created this Black Business Directory as a community resource to better Network and Educate local black businesses and to connect black businesses to the local black community

Our primary mission is to create community wealth through re-circulating the black dollar within the black community for as long and as often as possible.   By networking, supporting each other, and uplifting one another, we can create a massive economic impact on Tuscaloosa/Birmingham area that has never been seen before.

Our secondary mission is to educate black business owners on the proper way to set up, establish, and run a business…the right way!

By tapping into the expertise of other local black professionals to SHOW/TEACH/EDUCATE black business owners the correct way to run a business via webinars and seminars on the following Topics….becoming legit, paying taxes, tax strategies (learn how Amazon paid 0$ in taxes ..legally) declaring the proper business entity (an LLC ain’t for everybody), how to qualify for SBA money, federal grants, FEMA money, Credit, Investing, Franchises, etc….; basically the stuff we were never taught in school

Despite historically high unemployment rates and a pandemic,  if we network together and support each other there shouldn’t be not one black business in Tuscaloosa/ Birmingham that is forced to close down

One of the biggest complaints that Black businesses have is that Black consumers don’t support them. One of the biggest responses that Black consumers give is that they would possibly support a Black business if they knew who they were and where to find them. All in all, there has been a tremendous disconnect between the Black business community and Black consumers since the days of Black Wall Street…… Let close this disconnect in our area!

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BLACK WALL STREET…… HISTORICAL FACTS

“Black Wall Street was the name given to Greenwood Avenue, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where starting in 1910, this 35 square block area was both admired and envied by many individuals because the circulation of Black dollars within the Black community produced a tremendously prosperous and wealthy group of Black families and a vibrant Black community. What made Black Wall Street so powerful is that the Black dollar circulated anywhere from 36 to 1000 times, sometimes taking a whole year before the money left the community.

By 1921, the population of Black Wall Street had reached 11,000 and the community had its own bus line, thirteen churches, four hotels, three drug stores, two high schools, two theaters, two newspapers, one hospital and a public library. In addition to that, they built nearly 200 two-and three-story brick commercial buildings that housed professional offices for lawyers, doctors and dentists, clothing stores, grocery stores, nightclubs, restaurants and motels. Black Wall Street had become a strong commercial community.”

Cheryl Pearson-McNeil, Senior VP, US Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement – Nielsen