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Rebuilding Black-Owned Businesses After COVID-19 The pandemic hit Black entrepreneurs especially hard. To recover, we need to treat the pre-existing conditions. By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Joshua Devine With over half of American adults now at least partially vaccinated, many of us are beginning to imagine a future beyond the pandemic. But for the many small businesses that didn’t survive, there’s no “after.” Black-owned businesses have been especially hard-hit. That’s because even after three pandemic relief packages, there’s an elephant in the room that every resource, policy, and program is failing to address: the preexisting conditions of Black entrepreneurs.

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