“The effects of the pandemic are straining the US economy as a whole, but Black-owned businesses have been particularly impacted. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, 440,000 Black-owned businesses shuttered in the US, or 41 per cent of the total 1.1 million, between February and April this year. In comparison, only 17 per cent of white-owned businesses closed in the same time frame.” Read more at Vogue Business