Diverse City: UP

Diverse City: UP

June 2, 2020 6:40 pm EST.

Diverse City: “People are now asking, how can we help? How can we support the Black communities? The one thing people can do is to support Black entrepreneurs by buying their products, by hiring them, by hiring their services,” says Stéphanie Jecrois. She’s helping launch ‘UP: Unite and Prosper.’ Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed has the story.

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