As Efforts To Promote Black Businesses Rise, So Do Growing Pains

BOSTON, MA - APRIL 28: Items for sale are pictured at the Black Market Dudley pop-up market in Dudley Square in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston on April 28, 2018. Black Market is a a weekend-only pop-up market that features local predominantly black-owned businesses. It hosted 150 entrepreneurs in its inaugural year, and drew hordes of customers in the recent opening of its second season. But the markets return was marred by controversy after one of the vendors from its first year decided to open a market in the Seaport, which Boston magazine mistakenly heralded in a headline as the citys first black-owned pop-up. This new market, which will launch inside District Hall on May 19 and is scheduled to run monthly throughout the year, has prompted conversations about the role that such marketplaces can and should play in Bostons economy. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)