Atlanta Casts Light on Injustice for Black-Owned Small Business
- Closings higher for Black-owned U.S. firms amid pandemic
- Lack of access to capital, stimulus loans are main reason
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Atlanta has become a tinderbox for the social unrest roiling the U.S., with peaceful protests this weekend turning into scenes of a burning fast-food restaurant building following the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, a Black man, by police on Saturday.
With yet one more video of a Black person dying at the hands of police and the calls for social change ringing louder across the nation, another injustice is at the same time ripping through Atlanta and other cities: Black-owned businesses are increasingly shuttering in an economy marred by the coronavirus pandemic.