As many of you may already know, August marks Black Business Month. In addition to showing your support at all the local Black businesses of today, it’s also worth taking the month to brush up on the history of those who paved the way for us to even dream of sitting in the owner’s chair.
In a somber twist of fate, we lost one of the pioneering Black entrepreneurs of our culture this past Tuesday (August 13) with the late Wally Amos, original founder of Famous Amos Cookies who unfortunately never got to truly bear the fruits of his namesake brand after infamously having the sell it shortly before it was then resold for millions.
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While Mr. Amos was able to bounce back slightly with The Uncle Noname’s Cookie Company (later Uncle Wally’s Muffin Company) and most recently while based in Hawaii with The Cookie Kahuna, none quite gave him …