Business leaders gathered Thursday afternoon to celebrate a new initiative designed to support minority-owned businesses in the Jefferson City community.
A new collaborative effort between local leaders and companies to bolster minority businesses received plenty of support when it officially kicked off this weekend.
Lincoln University, one of the state's two historically Black universities, has an "egregious" track record of not contracting with minority-
and women-owned businesses, a university leader said.
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