Meet the South Side friends behind America’s first Black-owned bread company

Three Kenwood Academy grads share their recipe for business success and thoughts on the nation’s racial wealth gap.

Meet the South Side friends behind America’s first Black-owned bread company
Meet the South Side friends behind America’s first Black-owned bread company

Meet the South Side friends behind America’s first Black-owned bread company

Three Kenwood Academy grads share their recipe for business success and thoughts on the nation’s racial wealth gap.

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The Black Lives Matter protests and social unrest of 2020 spotlighted long-ignored inequalities in America, including economic discrimination. That’s what motivated three South Side friends to launch the nation’s first Black-owned bread company.

GUEST: Jamel Lewis, Charles Alexander and Mark Edmond: co-owners of Black Bread Company