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Black-owned small businesses across New England can now apply for $25,000 grants made possible by Vistaprint, the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, and the NAACP.

“Conversation is probably the only way we’re going to have any chance to heal this planet. If you understand my world, then you can relate to it. If I can understand your world, I can relate to it. That’s where the rub is.”

These 50 eBay sellers will receive grant packages worth $10,000 to help grow their online businesses.

“I didn’t care about profit. We just wanted Black children to see themselves in the stories they read because we know that schools didn’t really have that.”

“I like to work, and it’s fun. When the customers start rolling in, it’s all about them. We’re solving their issues or having conversations with them. I love it.”

“It was never a question of, you know, did I want to do this — it just felt natural. I knew I had a responsibility to help continue the family legacy.”