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Black Food & Beverage

When you’re making a dinner reservation, do you care who owns the restaurant? Increasingly the answer is - yes people do care. 

Heritage Radio Network: Tech Bites


The best ideas offer solutions to everyday needs. For Anthony Edwards, a software developer based in Brooklyn, and then-fiancé, Janique, deciding where to eat dinner was the focus one evening back in 2016. But there was a prerequisite — the restaurant had to be black-owned. 

Washington City Paper

An app called EatOkra makes it easy to find and support black-owned restaurants in 35 cities across the U.S., including the District. New York newlyweds Anthony and Janique Edwards founded the app in Brooklyn in 2016. “We used the word Okra in the name because it was a seed brought over during the slave trade,” Edwards explains. 

Apple

Apple launches new editorial collections, Apple Maps Guides, the Apple Watch Black Unity Collection, Today at Apple sessions, and more.