WUWM One of Outpost Co-ops four locations in Milwaukee located near North 1st Street and West Capitol Drive.
Minority-owned small businesses have struggled to stay afloat throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than half of Black-owned business owners say the pandemic has had a negative effect on their business. Fifty-seven percent of Latino and 63% of Asian American & Pacific Islander business owners say the same. This is according to Small Business Majority, a national small business organization that empowers diverse entrepreneurs to build a thriving and equitable economy.
COVID-19 exposed many disparities in non-white ethnic groups. But the pandemic’s disparate impact on Black folks did not stop them from leading social justice movements nationwide in the wake of police killings of Black and brown people.