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Vegan Black-Owned Cereal Brand Is Serving Up Empowerment, Too
Proud Puffs vegan cereal features chocolate-flavored empowerment fist-shaped puffs made with real cocoa, tapioca, and sweetened with monk fruit.
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This Brooklyn Vegan Restaurant Opened 2 Weeks Before the Pandemic. Now, They’re Booming.
Despite opening two weeks before New York City’s COVID-19 closures, Black-owned Ras Plant Based is Brooklyn’s newest rising star.
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There’s Now a Vegan Community Fridge in New York City
Spearheaded by Eloísa Trinidad and longtime activist and community organizer Power Malu, the Overthrow Community Fridge was inspired by an urgent need to provide healthy, animal-free foods to the local community.
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NBA Star Chris Paul Just Made It Easier to Support Vegan Black-Owned Brands
Vegan basketball player Chris Paul joins grocery platform goPuff to build its offering of plant-based snacks made by Black- and Brown-owned brands.
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Dallas Public Library Celebrates Black History Month with Virtual Vegan Cooking Classes
The library’s “Black Vegan Chefs of Dallas” series will feature Soulgood’s Cynthia Nevels, Recipe Oak Cliff’s Tisha Crear, and Bam’s Vegan’s Brandon Waller.
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Cory Booker Becomes First Vegan Senator on the Senate Agriculture Committee
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker—who is working to dismantle factory farming—will be the first vegan to serve on the Agriculture Committee.
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A Queer, Black Woman-Owned Vegan Café is Coming to New Jersey
New café LesbiVeggies will expand on its current meal-delivery services with a brick-and-mortar location opening next month.
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Vegan NBA Star Kyrie Irving Buys George Floyd’s Family a House
“He wanted to help George [Floyd]’s family and I let him know that a house was what they needed at that time and he made it happen in a heartbeat,” former NBA player and Floyd’s childhood friend Stephen Jackson said.
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Beyoncé Helps Vegan Black-Owned Business Raise $10,000
South Carolina’s Herban-Eats is the latest recipient of the Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund grant, which has helped 715 businesses to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to date.
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This Black-Owned Vegan Grocery Store to Open Locations in Every Major US City by 2024
Vegan Fine Foods founder Steven Smith is hosting another equity crowdfunding raise in an effort to expand the gourmet grocery store across the country.
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Seasoned Vegan: How This Mother-and-Son-Run Vegan Restaurant Has Become a Harlem Mainstay
A decade after opening its doors to hungry New Yorkers, Seasoned Vegan continues feeding the likes of Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, and Lenny Kravitz, and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
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Slutty Vegan CEO and Steve Harvey Help Pay 100 Electric Bills in Atlanta
Thanks to the joint effort, families with past-due bills no longer have to worry about staying warm this winter.
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