Black History Month is here!
This isn’t just about reflection, it’s about positioning. Because while we’re celebrating progress, the Small Business Administration recently removed more than a thousand businesses from the 8(a) program—a program designed to help historically marginalized entrepreneurs get access to contracts and capital. That tells us something important: support can be temporary, but strategy has to be permanent.
So the question isn’t who’s going to save Black businesses—the question is how are Black businesses going to build leverage? Black History Month creates attention, but attention without infrastructure fades fast. This is the season to convert visibility into revenue, stories into systems, and culture into capital.
We can’t afford to build businesses that only work when programs exist or when the calendar says February. We have to build institutions—brands, relationships, and ownership structures that last year-round. Tonight, we’re not just celebrating Black history—we’re talking about Black business survival, strategy, and scale.
Let’s get into it.
