‘Permanent damage’: can minority-owned businesses recover from pandemic’s toll?
Many business owners of color are still struggling to make ends meet – or have already shuttered – after their clients were ravaged by Covid
At a block party in Bell, California, a predominantly Latino Los Angeles suburb, food trucks, jewelry booths and other eclectic vendors lined the roads and walkways earlier this month.
Multi-generational families brought their abuelitas and teenage kids, savoring the perceived unwinding of a more than year-long pandemic.



