Black women say goodbye to the job and hello to their own businesses

The pandemic crisis has seen a boom in Black women – ‘so often entrepreneurs of necessity’ – setting up on their own

Known as “The Cookie Lady” around Washington DC, Lacey Fisher is famous for her British- and German-inspired alcohol-infused confectionaries. Fisher launched Cookie Lane during the economic crisis of 2008, after being laid off from four different jobs as a mortgage auditor.

“I ran through my six months of savings and rent was due,” Fisher says.

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