Declaring each Friday in December 2024 as “Shop Black Business Friday” in the City of Philadelphia. WHEREAS, Black culture runs deep among Philadelphia’s historic sites, artistic havens, cultural offerings-and in Philadelphia’s many Black-owned shops, restaurants, and other businesses; and WHEREAS, These businesses are enjoyed by visitors to Philadelphia and its residents and provide local jobs, goods, services and amenities in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia, including historically disadvantaged communities; and WHEREAS, Historical structural inequities and systemic racism have presented barriers for Black and Brown entrepreneurs and small business owners to open, operate, and grow; and WHEREAS, The Pew Research Center reports that while the number of Black owned businesses is growing in the US, Black- and Brown- owned businesses accounted for only 3% of all businesses with race and ethnicity data in the Census Bureau’s latest Annual Business Survey; and WHEREAS, Not only are Black-and -Brown- owned businesses vital to the communities they serve, but those businesses also bring in an estimated $183.3 billion in gross revenue nationally; and WHEREAS, It is imperative to safeguard and grow Philadelphia’s existing Black-owned businesses through investing and supporting them individually as consumers and collectively as a City; and WHEREAS, Visit Philadelphia, the tourism marketing organization, is kicking off the holiday season with dedicated marketing efforts to support …
CITY COUNCIL
This Resolution was ADOPTED.
CITY COUNCIL
This Resolution was Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar.