First COVID, Now Tariffs: Black Businesses Need Us to Show Up!
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 10, 2025
Say Something Real
By Michelle Bryant
Michelle Bryant
We’ve all heard the saying when America catches a cold, Black folks get pneumonia. It is with that understanding that many are fearful that the economic fallout from the Trump administration’s tariffs, could prove fatal to small Black-owned businesses. We need to look no further than to the impact of COVID-19, to understand how quickly our companies can flatline.
Across all U.S. racial and ethnic groups, we lost 41% of . . .
