The Michigan Black Business Alliance (MBBA) is challenging every candidate for Detroit mayor and city council to release a comprehensive agenda for supporting Black-owned businesses. With more than half of Detroit’s workforce employed by small businesses and a city economy that relies heavily on Black entrepreneurship, MBBA insists that this election season cannot ignore the community that has long sustained Detroit.

Over the last four years, MBBA has moved beyond rhetoric. They’ve put over $12 million in funding directly into the hands of Black-owned businesses and helped create or retain nearly 5,000 jobs. Through policy advocacy, statewide partnerships, and direct programming, the organization has worked to shift not just access to capital, but access to decision-making power.

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