"It's all Black-led, Black-owned businesses," said Stephanie Cancel, who attended this year. "It's a bunch of amazing entrepreneurs, Black professionals. Everybody from everywhere that is Black in Brooklyn, coming out and celebrating and turning up."
After so many consecutive killings of unarmed Black men, we were just in a state of hopelessness and frustration," said Coddett. "Things felt really dark, and we thought, 'What can we do to celebrate ourselves? What can we do to bring our community together?"
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