Returning Wealth to Coffee Growing Regions With Black-Owned Speciality Coffee BLK & Bold

Fork in the Road

English - February 26, 2021 16:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MB
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Pernell Cezar is the CEO and Co-Founder of BLK & Bold, the first-ever black-owned, nationally distributed coffee business that makes social impact a priority. BLK & Bold won the NAACP Small Business of the Year Award in 2019 and their new partnership with Ethiopia-based Keffa Coffee highlights the quality, prominence, and diversity of coffee grown in regions across Ethiopia, which is known as the motherland of coffee.

Today we chat about why their end-to-end black owned coffee company is essential the landscape and the story of how coffee goes from seed to cup.

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