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Like other Black entrepreneurs in her Inglewood neighborhood, Annie Graham has struggled to keep her business afloat during the pandemic.
At Ms. Ann’s clothing boutique on Manchester Boulevard, the Easter finery Graham stocked last spring remains on the racks. Also untouched are many of the exclusively white outfits for weddings and parties that she sells at her storefront next door, the White House. Customers, she said, mostly buy dresses now for funerals.
Annie Graham, owner of Ms. Ann’s dress shop in Inglewood, had her application last year for a PPP loan rejected.
(James Bernal for Reveal / Los Angeles Times)
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Like other Black entrepreneurs in her Inglewood neighborhood, Annie Graham has struggled to keep her business afloat during the pandemic.
At Ms. Ann’s clothing boutique on Manchester Boulevard, the Easter finery Graham stocked last spring remains on the racks. Also untouched are many of the exclusively white outfits for weddings and parties that she sells at her storefront next door, the White House. Customers, she said, mostly buy dresses now for funerals.
Annie Graham, owner of Ms. Ann’s dress shop in Inglewood, had her application last year for a PPP loan rejected.
(James Bernal for Reveal / Los Angeles Times)
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Kara Landau, 34, founder of Uplift Food, moved to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, from NY in January 2021.
On a six-month visa, she loves that she can walk on the beach every day and make friends with expats.
This is her story, as told to freelance writer Perri Ormont Blumberg.
The pandemic had me itching for change from my New York City homebase.
As an Australian, New York winters have always felt brutal to me, and without the opportunity to visit home this year and with the stressors and intensity of working from home all of last year, I felt I needed to get out of the city and place myself in a calmer, warmer environment near the ocean for my mental health.