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  • A customer walks into Ben’s Chili Bowl, a black owned business, on U Street during the COVID-19 pandemic June 15, 2020, in Washington, DC. – Media, activist and business initiatives to support African-American restaurant owners have been stepping up in recent weeks in the wake of the historic anti-racism movement in the US since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in his forties who was killed by a white policeman on 25 May. Numerous studies have shown that African-American entrepreneurs, particularly in the service sector such as restaurants, have suffered most severely from the economic and health crisis caused by Covid-19. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    America’s entrepreneurial equity crisis is hurting the economy

    By Marc Morial and Jon Cowan