The #SupportBlackOwnedBusinesses hashtag has nearly one million posts on Instagram, and Cleveland’s Black business community offers plenty of ways to do just that.
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Need more inspo? Check out The Real Black Friday, founded by LaRese Purnell in 2014 to offer exposure to Cleveland’s Black-owned businesses, while Purnell's CLE Consulting Firm provides accounting, tax, payroll and other professional services. Indi Media Group is a visual marketing platform that encourages rising creatives to invest in their personal brand through entrepreneurship and business development strategies. Future Gen Comics talented team can take an idea you have for a character and turn it into a reality on posters, comic books or animation. Brandon and Jared Smith became business partners as well as brothers when they developed the NOOMA line of sports drinks for hydration, energy, recovery and more.