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When Their Community Needed It Most, They Opened A Place To Connect With Nature
Come to their Oakland shop, BLK Girls Green House, for the plant and home goods and stay for the healing and peace. Co-creators Kalkidan (“Kalu”) Gebreyohannes and J’Maica Roxanne Thomas (Kevin Allen)
“Some beautiful blessings have come out of COVID,” says Kalkidan (“Kalu”) Gebreyohannes, co-owner of Blk Girls Green House, a shop for plants and home goods in West Oakland, California, “and our business is one of them.” The space opened in August 2020, the state’s deadliest month of the pandemic at that time. Kalu also cites police violence and the loss of Black lives as catalysts to the creation of a sanctuary where people could find solace.