Overview
- Spend in the Black, which runs Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., takes over 75th Street at King Drive with more than 100 Black-owned vendors.
- Organizers will award ten $1,000 emergency savings accounts and a single $15,000 grant to an entrepreneur working the market.
- Side streets along 75th Street closed at 6 p.m. Friday and are set to reopen by midnight Sunday to make room for tents and crowds.
- Last year’s inaugural event generated more than $1 million in one day, with businesses like Brown Sugar Bakery reporting their biggest sales yet.
- Led by Rev. Charlie Dates and Ald. William Hall through Progressive and Salem Baptist Churches and the 6th Ward, the effort aims to keep dollars circulating locally as shops like The Woodshop and Flowers First seek new, long-term customers.