Black-owned businesses in Portland, Oregon, have found financial, emotional, and technical support by working with each other creating a tight-knit network of Black residents.
Since the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, Black-owned businesses in Portland have been focused on supporting and collaborating in part due to the city’s reckoning with its racist past and because of the increasing number of small Black businesses popping up in the city.
Additionally, local projects such as the Come Thru Market are supporting Black-owned businesses in the city, but what has truly helped elevate Black businesses in Portland is collaboration and working specifically and often exclusively with other Black-owned businesses.
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