Wisconsin Black Pages connects people with Black-owned businesses
For more than two decades, a woman in Milwaukee has been helping people find African American owned businesses to patronize. Shelia Payton has been doing it through a directory called the Wisconsin Black Pages.
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MILWAUKEE â For more than two decades, a woman in Milwaukee has been helping people find African American owned businesses to patronize. Shelia Payton has been doing it through a directory called the Wisconsin Black Pages.
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âThe purpose was to get people to buy from Black-owned businesses and not for any other reason other than economic,â said Payton.
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