Eight Delta Black Businesses Receive Back Black Business Grants

One day, Bread and Butter Shoppe owner Valour Cobbins stumbled across an ad for the Coalition to Back Black Business grant while scrolling through Facebook. Though she identifies as someone who is “not a social-media person,” Cobbins decided to apply for the grant after seeing it in her feed multiple times. The process felt quick and easy compared to other applications she had filled out in the past, she said.

The entrepreneur opened the Bread and Butter Shoppe in Greenwood, Miss., in 2021 during the height of the pandemic . . .