As a black business owner, I understand how difficult it is to start out and build your business from scratch. As a person of color, in the “traditional” business world, it is hard to get loans, capital, investors, etc. Thankfully as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement, there is more exposure to black owned businesses and a concerted effort to offer more capital to black owned business owners.
My next book, the Barrel, will be coming out soon and if you don’t know what this book is about let me explain it some more. The Barrel is a prolific story about a family of crabs that can’t seem to get it together to help one another out which ends up in their demise. Yes, I know this is not the typical children’s story because it does not have