TALLAHASSEE — VOTEBLACKBUSINESS: State of Black Business, 21st Edition ranks Florida fifth in its annual Black Business Affinity Index.
Although the Sunshine State has more Black self-employed than any other state, it has comparatively fewer employer businesses, ranking in the bottom half.
Plans to create a Black History museum near the landing spot for the state’s first Black residents in St. Augustine have gotten through an increasingly hostile legislature.
Four sessions of Defending the 14th Amendment through July 30 address how to counter efforts in the courts and statehouses to harm Black-owned businesses.