small businesses

“We’re all figuring out what next week is going to look like day to day.” How can a party-based business pull through a pandemic? That is the question certified balloon artist Ava Sealey, who owns Ava Party Designs in Bethel, has been facing since March. Many small businesses are struggling during the pandemic, but Sealey believes in her business’s...

Harriett’s Bookshop, Brooklyn Chop House and Next Step Training discuss being Black-owned businesses during the pandemic and trying to raise awareness about social justice.

The coronavirus pandemic is tamping down the joy — and the revenue — associated with the Carnival season in New Orleans

Yelp searches for Black-owned businesses increased 2,400% in 2020.

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker speaks Ristorante Saraceno in the North End and announces a small business relief grant program.

Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks to accept their applications

Since reopening her hair salon after the shutdown earlier this year, Sharita Payton says she’s been able to double her clientele. “I try to be as hopeful as possible,” said Payton, who owns The Loft Hair Studio in Medford, Massachusetts. Still, it’s a struggle amid the pandemic, with new restrictions popping up routinely. “There’s always something,” she said. Now,...

Two 12-year-old brothers from Connecticut have created a solution to a common Christmas problem – falling ornaments. Ayaan and Mika’il Naqvi joined LX News to talk about their invention of the “ornament anchor” and how their small business is helping homeless pets.

Mayor Marty Walsh was very candid Monday night about the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on the City of Boston. Walsh said he prays every night for those impacted one way or another by the virus, as the pandemic rages on, impacting more people every day. One person impacted is Carinn Lopez, who owns Rose JP Consignment. After three…

The past year has taken a massive toll on small businesses across the country, but some can start preparing for a better 2021. The CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute International, Chloe Demrovsky, joined LX News to explain what businesses should expect in 2021 and how they can start preparing now.

Bigotry toward Asian Americans and Asian food has spread steadily alongside the coronavirus in the United States. Distorted information about the virus that first appeared in China has led to a revival of century-old tropes about Asian food being dirty.

When the swine flu pandemic hit the world in 2009, designer Irina Blok took her idea for fun face masks onto ‘Shark Tank.’ But in what may be the biggest face-palm moment in the show’s history, the ’Sharks’ nearly laughed her out of the room. We talked to Blok about the experience and saw how one of the investors is...

Check out this pop-up marketplace designed to help women and women-owned small businesses near you and Get Konnected!

The coronavirus pandemic has been incredibly damaging for the restaurant industry in the United States: The National Restaurant Association estimates that at least 17% of the country’s food service establishments have already shuttered, with 10,000 restaurants having closed their doors in just the past three months.

Many Massachusetts businesses are wondering how they’ll survive the winter, between the apparent lack of stimulus funding from the federal government and some communities rolling back reopening amid a surge in cases. Boston’s gyms, theaters, museums, indoor entertainment facilities and many others are required to shut down Wednesday as the city and some of its neighbors, like Newton and...

Many Massachusetts businesses are wondering how they’ll survive the winter, between the apparent lack of stimulus funding and some communities rolling back reopening amid a surge in cases.

Many small businesses are hurting right now. That’s why Colette Phillips started Get Konnected Market, an online marketplace of women and minority-owned businesses. Why it’s important and what kinds of fabulous things you can find.

Major restaurant groups, commercial contractors and a large dairy maker in Massachusetts were among the biggest beneficiaries of the government’s coronavirus relief program for small businesses, according to new federal records. The Small Business Administration on Wednesday released sweeping data on who benefited from pandemic relief, including more than $521 billion distributed through SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program. Borrowers could...

At sixteen years old, the Brooklyn teenager became the youngest owner of a Black beauty supply store in the country, and her initial tweet about her store, Paris Beauty Supplyz, has gained nearly 140 thousand likes – and co-signs from big celebrities like Bella Hadid and Janet Jackson.

Brooklyn teen Paris McKenzie grew tired of going into beauty supply stores and either being treated like she wasn’t welcome or greeted by workers who had no knowledge of Black hair care. So, she opened up her own inclusive beauty supply store at the age of just 16 years old, drawing praise from big celebrities like Bella Hadid and Janet...