Nashville has a plethora of black-owned businesses and many people are compiling lists right now to help us find them. These are some of the resources we found, in an effort to create a comprehensive list of local shops.
Why should you support black-owned businesses? Doing this will help close the racial wealth gap and help our local economy. Green America has researched this subject and their article includes statistics backing all of these points and more. Read that here.
List of Resources to Find Nashville Black-Owned Businesses:
Urbaanite Nashville updates their list of businesses monthly. They also have a list of black-owned restaurants.
Now Playing Nashville has a lengthy list on their website.
Rank Tribe has a Nashville black business directory.
Black Business Nashville frequently posts local black-owned businesses as well as articles about them. Give their page a like here.
Nashvillians created a lengthy Google document with lots of businesses and their links (where applicable). Read through the document here.
From wings to peach cobbler, Do615 has their own list.
Have you seen other resources we can add to this article? Do you know of any black-owned businesses not mentioned? Comment below or email editor@nashvillenoise.com.