(WIB) – Did you know there’s Black-owned toilet paper? The Leafy Products company, which specializes in eco-friendly and 100% bamboo paper, was founded by a group of Black friends. And it’s not the only Black-owned toilet paper company out there.

August is National Black Business Month, so we have created a roundup of platforms and directories that are making it easier to shop Black-owned businesses.

“If we are able to put it in the palm of someone’s hand, then I think we’ll see a lot more people willing to [buy Black],” standup comedian and Blapp founder Jon Lester says in the Word In Black video above.

Inside the Blapp app, you can enter your location to find Black-owned businesses near you. So far, Lester says the platform can point its users to 40,000 Black businesses in the U.S. So

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