The app EatOkra, a nationwide guide to black-owned restaurants, has had 100,000 downloads this year—90,000 of them in the last 30 days.
Amid celebrations of Juneteenth around the country, ABC’s Deborah Roberts’ talks with Darryl Jones, a soda shop owner, on his family legacy of hard work and success.protests have spread across the nation, there has been an outpouring of support for black-owned businesses and restaurants. Many have seen significant increases in sales.
The movement to support black businesses and entrepreneurs, as a means to combat racial injustices, has gone viral on social media, with hashtags, documents and consumer apps seeing their highest rate of traffic to date. "This isn't something we just jumped on because it's the thing to do right now, we have been doing this since 2016," Anthony Edwards Jr., the app's co-founder told ABC News."I think people are coming to an understanding of the black experience, and what has really been going on in the world."
Black Wallet, another black-owned business directory platform, has also seen a tremendous increase in traffic.
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