Vegans of Color

Black-owned vegan meat brand Everything Legendary impressed Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban, propelling the new plant-based protein company into the market. The Shark put forward a $300,000 investment in exchange for 22 percent of the company. The business deal will place the susta…

Dr. Sunyatta Amen is a life-long plant-based eater: She's an Afro-Caribbean-Latinx and a fifth-generation master herbalist, naturopathic doctor, vegan chef, witch, and the entrepreneur behind Calabash Tea & Tonic in Washington, D.C. She comes from a multi-generational Black family, and in the 19…

February is Black History Month, a time that celebrates the achievements of Black Americans and honors the legacy of African-American culture in the US. The 2021 Black History Month comes on the heels of last year’s events still fresh in many minds; it was a momentous time that brought profound awar…

Beyoncé’s nonprofit BeyGood continues to help Black-owned, plant-forward small businesses run the world. The Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund, created in a partnership between BeyGood and the NAACP, just endowed Herban-Eats––a Black-owned, vegan com…

Entrepreneur Steven Smith was tired of researching ingredients and running circles around the grocery store aisles as a plant-based eater and decided that he’d take it upon himself to help plant-based shoppers find options more easily. In 2018, Smith opened his flagship gro…

WOC-owned vegan cookie company Partake has just announced the close of a Series A funding, securing over 4.8 million dollars in investment from celebrities like Jay-Z's Marcy Ventures Partners (MVP) and Rihanna. Other investors include Kevin Johnson of Black Capital, Seattle Seahawks …

Blenlly Mena and her sister Ana Baez founded Next Stop Vegan to offer Bronx residents and other New Yorkers healthier plant-based Caribbean fare. Born in the Northern part of the Dominican Republic, Mena and Baez were eager to share their love of their traditional food,…

Today, September 14th is Support Latino Business day! Mayors across the country including in Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, District of Columbia, El Paso, Houston, Lawrence, Los Angeles, McAllen, Oakland, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco have issued city proclamations in obs…

One morning, Eric Adams remembers waking up, 56, as the new  Brooklyn Borough President and blinking to try to see. He was suddenly nearly blind in one eye and completely blind in the other. Rushing to the doctor, he was told that his blood glucose level was 17, three times …

Some of our favorite plant-based food companies, big and small, have stepped up amid the coronavirus outbreak to help feed millions of food-insecure among them.
Among one of the key players stepping up the plate? Impossible Foods, who partnered with Colin Kaepernick’s civil right…

When a famous rapper loses a leg to diabetes there is little to do but offer sympathy and give to the GoFundMe page set up for his treatment and follow up care. Today, as we listened to The Beet's Creative AdvisorJermaine Dupri being interviewed for HipHopDX, we learned that Andre &am…

Hey, Cincy friends, do we have some news for you: Like Mom’s Only Vegan bakery has opened up and the menu offerings are enough to make even the staunchest of pretzel salt aficionados ready to indulge their sweet tooth.
The Black family-owned vegan bakery is certainly leaving fans…