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SBN At-Home: Why Black Businesses Matter
Bola Audena, Tony Parchment, and C. Marie Taylor join Kelly Leonard for MyMCM’s February episode of Small Business Network at Home.
The series of monthly sessions facilitated by Leonard address topics of interest to small business owners in Montgomery County. February’s topic is “Why Black Businesses Matter.”
Watch the entire show here:
Bola Audena is the CEO and Managing Partner at MBA Growth Partners.
Tony Parchment is the founder and of Upstart Connectors, Inc and cofounder of the Montgomery County Black Business Council.
C. Marie Taylor is President and Principal Consultant at Equity Through Action.
‘Why can’t it be me?’
Growing up, C. Marie Taylor kept being told “no.” Now the former CEO of Leadership Montgomery is helping companies recognize systemic racism and confront their own biases. By Steve Roberts |
January 18, 2021 | 8:33 am
C. Marie Taylor, who runs Equity Through Action, at home in Silver Spring. Photo by Lisa Helfert
In 1981, when C. Marie Taylor was 8 years old, financial problems forced her family to move from a large house in Washington, D.C., to a small apartment in the Virginia suburb of Annandale. “We were among the first Black people to move to this area,” she recalls, “and when I went to school, the first day I was there, there was a little girl who said, ‘Oh you can’t sit here Black people can’t sit here.’ And I said, ‘What? What are you talking about?’ So, because I was 8, I made the incorrect choice and picked her up and threw her across the table and said, ‘Well, you can’t sit here either.’ ”