Black Entrepreneurs Day celebrated at Minnesota State Capitol [Video]

MINNEAPOLIS — After a year of planning, and a month of re-planning due to political twists and turns both nationally and locally, Sheletta Brundidge was relieved to once again greet hundreds of Black business owners inside the Minnesota Capitol on Monday morning.

“It’s a family up in here,” Brundidge said, standing at a podium inside the packed rotunda. “This is Black Entrepreneurs Day.”

The annual event, which began three years ago in response to the murder of George Floyd, has also sought to better connect Black entrepreneurs to the political process.

“Many of our Black entrepreneurs, they literally had never been to the Capitol, never even been there to talk to their representatives,” said Dr. Verna Cornelia Price, a local business owner, author, podcaster and founder of …