We are 100% owned by people of color. So myself, I’m Black and Afro Latino, he said.
His world tour box of coffee pods is one of many gift suggestions on laoriginal.com, where you can shop for locally made gifts from small businesses, many owned by people of color and/or women. It’s not Amazon. Someone’s hands really made each and every product, there isn’t any machine, said Krystyl Wright, the co-owner of Lot Xi.
Wright and her mother started Lot Xi in her Compton garage. The apothecary sells handmade body scrubs, facial masks, and candles including their popular Inglewood and Compton candles with a portion of proceeds going to causes in those cities.