By Long Island, for Long Island: Local leaders celebrate women-owned businesses

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Robin Garrison Bolling, president of the Westbury/New Cassel NAACP, shared her favorite Black woman-owned local business to celebrate National Women-Owned Businesses Day. Women-owned businesses in the United States generate approximately $3.3 trillion annually and employ over $12 million , according to Wells Fargo’s 2025 Impact of Women-Owned Businesses report. Women-owned businesses are growing rapidly. This is especially true among Black women, despite the disproportionate amount of obstacles they face (sometimes referred to as “misogynoir” — a portmanteau that speaks to the intersecting challenges facing black women due to racial and gender bias). To commemorate National Women-Owned Business Day, we asked three local leaders to share their favorite Black women-owned local businesses.