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Truck Driver Launches Eat Black Owned to Help Travelers Find Black-Owned Restaurants

Simone JohnsonSeptember 16, 2019May 4, 2020

by Simone JohnsonSeptember 16, 2019May 4, 20202119

Edward Dillard, a truck driver, created a site called EatBlackOwned.com to help customers locate black-owned eateries around the country....

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Black-Owned Roaming Rooster Booms After Chicken Sandwich Beef

Simone JohnsonSeptember 11, 2019September 11, 2019

by Simone JohnsonSeptember 11, 2019September 11, 20191186

Washington, D.C.'s black-owned Roaming Rooster is booming with business in the wake of the Popeyes-Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich war....

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Local Soul Food Restaurant Expands Into Walmart

Selena HillJuly 3, 2019July 3, 2019

by Selena HillJuly 3, 2019July 3, 20191776

Cornbread, a farm-to-table soul food restaurant founded by Adenah Bayoh and Zadie B. Smith, is expanding into three Walmart stores....

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This Soul Food Restaurant is Serving Lessons In Black History With “Shoebox Lunches”

Selena HillJanuary 28, 2019

by Selena HillJanuary 28, 20196603

Beans & Cornbread, a soul food restaurant in Detroit, is cooking up food for thought and packing black history into their Jim Crow-era “shoebox lunches.”...

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Celebrity Hairstylist Gocha Hawkins Opens New Breakfast Bar in Atlanta

Black EnterpriseJanuary 23, 2019January 23, 2019

by Black EnterpriseJanuary 23, 2019January 23, 20192017

Award-winning hairstylist and entrepreneur Gocha Hawkins saw a need in the Southwest Atlanta community of Cascade and filled it by opening Gocha’s Breakfast Bar....

SHARK TANK - "Episode 908" - Husband and wife entrepreneurs from Atlanta, Georgia, introduce the Sharks to their famous seafood breading mix business; an entrepreneur from Birmingham, Mississippi, provides pets and their owners a way to communicate with one another with her invention; a re-engineered bathrobe for today's man and for those men who wouldn't be caught dead in one is presented to the Sharks by an entrepreneur from Roslyn, New York; entrepreneurs from San Diego, California, inform the Sharks on what every man with long hair needs to know and have in their life, on "Shark Tank," SUNDAY, JAN. 14 (9:00-10:00 p.m. EST), on The ABC Television Network. (ABC/Eddy Chen) MARANDA DOWELL, JOE DOWELL (JOE’S GOURMET FISH FRY)

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After Their Restaurant Was Destroyed by Katrina, Couple Lands Delicious Deal With Daymond John

Brandon AndrewsJanuary 18, 2018January 18, 2018

by Brandon AndrewsJanuary 18, 2018January 18, 20181310

Maranda and Joe Dowell pitched Joe’s Gourmet Fish Fry on Shark Tank, striking a deal with Daymond John. Hurricane Katrina destroyed the Dowell family’s seafood restaurant...