With coffee being such a major a part of the day to day lifestyle in Western Washington it was alarming to us when we heard the statistics on black owned coffee roasters or cafe owners in the Pacific Northwest. It was through our good friends at Campfire Coffee that our eyes were opened to the disparities of black faces and ideas in the coffee realm.
Read MoreGroovy Tapes is a Black owned, doing the work other podcast from our inner cities haven’t been able to accomplish. It’s important to note that while it is Black owned (Corey, the super tall one), Tavares is Sāmoan-American and Solana is Guatemalan. It’s done with genuine intentions and they have been transparent from their first episode.
Read More…Basics Co.’s brand story even more. He’s also trendsetting for other brands by using black owned spaces like Aisle 4 and eTcTacoma exclusively to run his pop up shop experiences. For his next trick he’s moving the pop-up experience to the well known (also black owned) Paradice Souf store and standing proudly on his blackness as a human and as a Seattleite.
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