My story is of a single mother of four children who witnessed our community being shot down in the streets by the police. I wanted to do something for our community, so I started protesting on social media through my pro-black Instagram page. A gentleman named Mr. Dale Dowdie, the CEO of Black Facts reached out to me and said he loved my passion for our community and wanted me to work on his social media pages. I started working for him in February 2018, managing his regular post of black facts. He saw how passionate I was about the black community, so he suggested I start my own business, influencing our community to support each other. Because of this, I decided to set up an Instagram page called Black Connections, which would support black businesses only. I wanted our community to have a platform just for us. I wanted us to have our platform because I felt that we needed a place just for black people, black business owners, black organizations, and black events to come together and support one another. This platform was designed solely for the black dollar to unite the community and support black-owned businesses to keep our money within our community. By building more black-owned businesses and investing in each other, we can turn our small businesses into major corporations, thus creating more employment opportunities for our community. We are unstoppable when we support each other’s businesses; we can cut down on gun violence and poverty, buy lower-income housing, renovate, and create affordable housing for our community. We are the change our community needs, starting with the recycling of the black dollar with black-owned businesses. Now, we can support each other and level the playing field.