How the Pandemic Affects Minority-Owned Small Businesses
This article discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic caused immediate difficulties and long-term suffering for many minority entrepreneurs. This crisis had a bigger effect on minority-owned businesses in particular because these businesses tend to face underlying issues that make it harder to run and scale successfully, and they are more likely to be concentrated in the industries most immediately affected by the pandemic, such as service industries. This article also examines how the community can help support minority businesses during the pandemic.