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An NAACP flyer campaigning for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 1922, but was filibustered to defeat in the Senate. Dyer, the NAACP, and freedom fighters around the country, like Flossie Baily, struggled for years to get the Dyer and other anti-lynching bills passed, to no avail. Today there is still no U.S. law specifically against lynching. In 2005, eighty of the 100 U.S. Senators voted for a resolution to apologize to victims' families and the country for their failure to outlaw lynching. Courtesy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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Claude, age 23, just months before his 1930 murder. Courtesy of Faith Deeter.

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Souvenir Portrait of the Lynching of Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp, August 7, 1930, by studio photographer Lawrence Beitler. Courtesy of the Indiana Hisorical Society.

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August 21, 2025

By Shernay Williams, Word In Black

BLACK BALLOON SALESMAN ON SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO’S 47TH STREET MANY OF THE CITY’S BLACK BUSINESS OWNERS STARTED WITH… – NARA – 556217.jpg

Did you know there’s Black-owned toilet paper? The Leafy Products company, which specializes in eco-friendly and 100% bamboo paper, was founded by a group of Black friends. And it’s not the only Black-owned toilet paper company out there.

August is National Black Business Month, so we have created a roundup of platforms and directories that are making it easier to shop Black-owned businesses.

“If we are able to put it in the palm of someone’s hand, then I think we’ll see a lot more people willing to [buy Black],” standup comedian and Blapp founder Jon Lester says in the Word In Black video above.

Inside the Blapp app, you can enter your location to find Black-owned businesses near you. So far, Lester says the platform can point its users to 40,000 Black businesses in the U.S. Soon, it will support online shopping, as well.

“So [it’s] a Black Amazon of sorts,” Lester says.

Blapp is one of a handful of platforms hoping to make it easier to find Black-owned businesses.

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