Black-owned Businesses
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Blogs and Publishings
The Body Is Not An Apology is an international movement committed to cultivating global Radical Self Love and Body Empowerment. We believe that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make peace with the body, our own and others. Through information dissemination, personal and social transformation projects and community building, The Body is Not An Apology fosters global, radical, unapologetic self love which translates to radical human love and action in service toward a more just, equitable and compassionate world.
pride
"I’m Jay, the owner, founder, and designer behind I am We Creations.
This shop started as a place for me to create and offer inclusive, unique, and affordable items for the communities I’m in, such as queer/LGBT+, autistic, depressed, and anxious.
My goal with each item I design is simple – to brighten someone’s day and remind them that they aren’t alone in what they’re going through.
We as society are only as good as how we treat the people within it, and I want us all to be the best we can be, as individuals and together as communities. I hope what I create helps you on your path to be your best."
"Hello! I'm Tippy, I'm Aro-Ace and I'm the owner of this shop and site. I created this brand when I realized that I could not find the type of pride related products that I wanted to wear and own on any websites. I started out making my own versions at home with heat transfer paper and an iron (as pictured above). One day while wearing my sweatshirt out and about I had someone ask me where I got it from because they loved the design and I had an epiphany of "if I'm interested in these types of products, maybe others are too" and thus "That Pride Shop" was born. This is a one woman operation and I run all the social media and this site solo. "
artists / creatives
INDEPENDENT SITES
"We believe deeply in one core principle: Dice are cool. They are pocket sized tokens of creativity. They are an art and they are fun to share and collect. They thrill us when they deal out max damage and we secretly love it when one of our friends compliments our new set. Our mission is to give you great new dice to show off and to give your friends "dice envy."
We offer high-end dice at affordable prices. You can buy them individually or subscribe to our monthly box and get new dice automatically mailed to your door. The choice is yours."
Odunze Whyte Oguguo
Save a puppy by hitting follow. 🇳🇬 Manga/Comic Artist ⭐️Ytber 320K+ subs ⭐️ @saturdayam @saturdaypm Co-founder #AppleBlack #Bacassi + MORE Linked
linktr.ee/whytmanga"
"‘TOBI UZUMAKI’
We 💕black girls here & if you’re a racist ass bitch FUCK OFF.
# blacklivesmatter
www.tobithekid.com/shop"
"‘DennisARTWORKS
CONTACT: Info @ Dennisartworks.com | SHOP:
linktr.ee/dennis_artworks"
"Geneva ✧彡
Nice to meet you! I draw💐
CLOSED for custom art/comms sorry!
Portfolio, Store, HoverGirls Webcomic 👇🏾
linktr.ee/gdbee"
"ニコラス・ドレーパーアイビー
Writer|Illustrator|Anti-Hero|Cynic
BUSY AS F*%K .
Creator of @dreamvesper
From Detroit. Lives in NY. ✈️|LA|JPN
Drew Black Panther Album Cover.
www.nikolasdraperivey.net"
etsy
1000+ etsy shops via themadmommy.com
"Email [email protected] to be added to this list! Please email rather than commenting so I can keep everything in order. I am working my way through 800+ emails right now as quickly as possible.
This list was started from posts in multiple Etsy support groups that keep getting removed. Even when groups allow self-promotion, posts asking about Black-owned businesses are getting deleted. Guess what? Those folks can't delete a blog post!"
books/authors
nonfiction
THE skin we're in by desmond cole
"A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists."
"IBRAM X. KENDI is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Founding Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University in Washington, DC. A professor of history and international relations, Kendi is a contributor at The Atlantic and CBS News. Beginning July 1, 2020, Kendi will become Professor of History and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He will also become the 2020-2021 Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Study at Harvard University."
fiction
"Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 awardee, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays are featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel. "
"Her work has been translated into over thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book; and Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Ms. Adichie is also the author of the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. "
"YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn. "
"James McBride is an award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, published in 1996, has sold millions of copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Considered an American classic, it is read in schools and universities across the United States. His debut novel, Miracle at St. Anna, was turned into a 2008 film by Oscar-winning writer and director Spike Lee, with a script written by McBride. His 2013 novel, The Good Lord Bird, about American abolitionist John Brown, won the National Book Award for Fiction and will be a Showtime limited series in fall 2020 starring Ethan Hawke. "
washington black by Esi Edugyan
"Esi Edugyan is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia."
"Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at a Nigerian Publishing House and has been freelancing as a writer and graphic designer since. She has had short stories published in anthologies and has also self-published work."
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