SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) – Since 2004, August has been recognized as National Black Enterprise Month.

Quite a few truly feel that Black-owned companies are staples in their communities, like The Clean in Shreveport. The car washing and detailing staple is owned by Stanley Johnson, or Stan Tha Person. He has been a business enterprise operator for 30 several years.

“I could not have did it without having the folks. I started off from the bottom and arrived to the leading. Working at it, they supported me, just about everywhere I moved, from a single location to one more, they was there. They occur from Dallas, Houston, Monroe, California, everywhere you go. Every person wishes to come see me,” he said.

Shannon Ali, a mother, teacher and now a accredited speech therapist, utilized her prior credentials to open up a language and literacy mastering small business in the course of the pandemic.

Ali claims she has confronted some challenges in her entrepreneurial journey.

“I actually struggled with determining whether or not I should include things like my facial area on our web site. I didn’t know if somebody observing a young, Black lady would prevent them from coming. But I resolved no I want them to know,” she stated.

A single of Ali’s loyal shoppers suggests she experienced absolutely nothing to worry about.

“It’s never an difficulty for me at all. I imagine irrespective of race, Black, white, yellow, it does not make any difference. Everybody desires their child to be successful.”

Just a couple of of Shreveport’s quite a few Black-owned enterprises:

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