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Bags
Fashion 🤎
Beauty 🤎
Athletic Wear 👟
Swimwear 🌊
Jewelry 💎
Bags
A powerhouse in luxury accessories, Brandon Blackwood crafts bold, sophisticated bags that make a statement. Known for iconic designs like the “End Systemic Racism” tote, the brand fuses activism, artistry, and elevated style — all rooted in Black ex...
Brandon Blackwood New York
A bold, unisex fashion brand redefining luxury with inclusivity at its core. Known for the iconic “Shopping Bag,” Telfar is style made for everyone — not just the few.
TELFAR
Deseri is a Black woman–owned brand celebrated for its meticulously crafted bags that embody timeless elegance. Focusing on thoughtful design and quality materials, each piece blends modern luxury with practical versatility—elevating any occasion wit...
DESERI
Fashion 🤎
A chic, Black-owned brand blending effortless luxury with bold femininity. Ciao by C.C. offers statement pieces designed to turn heads — from sleek silhouettes to standout accessories, it’s fashion with undeniable attitude and grace.
CIAO by CC
Bold. Empowered. Unapologetic. Fanm Djanm — meaning “strong woman” in Haitian Creole — is a Black-owned brand known for its vibrant headwraps and accessories that celebrate culture, confidence, and self-expression. Every piece is a statement of stren...
Fanm Djanm
Surprise yourself or your significant other with a wardrobe refresh for date nights from Ellaé Lisqué. Modern, bright, colorful and eye-popping selections include sexy cutout dresses and ruffle rompers, enough to grab any eye (or heart) when you step...
Ellaé Lisqué
Celebrating beauty in every shade, The Wrap Life offers bold, high-quality headwraps and accessories made for self-expression. This Black-owned brand blends culture, creativity, and confidence — one wrap at a time.
The Wrap Life
We love the effortless yet elevated styles offered by this new clothing brand. Founded by entrepreneur Ukonwa Ojo in loving memory of her mother, Ada and Edith's focus is on creating clothes for real women and adding female representation to a male-d...
Ada & Edith
These shoes are a favorite of our Good Housekeeping Institute Senior Textiles Analyst and were selected as one of our Best Products of 2021. Arch NYC makes fun and showstopping shoes to add flair to any look.
ARCH NYC
Beauty 🤎
Clean, gender-neutral, and made for textured hair — Adwoa Beauty is a Black-owned brand redefining modern haircare. With powerful ingredients and sleek design, each product is crafted to nourish curls, coils, and kinks with intention and style.
Adwoa Beauty
Alaffia offers sustainable, fair trade skin and haircare products for the whole family, from shampoos to face and body washes, in large sizes at affordable price points.
Alaffia
Enhancing one's natural beauty is something that the team at Ami Colé has in the bag: All products are designed to highlight, rather than cover up.
Ami Cole
Bee Love employs formerly incarcerated individuals as a way to offer them a fresh chance at establishing a new life. True to its name, the company makes everything from honey to honey-infused skincare products like indulgent body balms and sugar scru...
BeeLove - Chicago
Science-driven skincare that delivers real results. Founded by cosmetic chemist Ron Robinson, BeautyStat is a Black-owned brand known for its award-winning vitamin C formulas and clinically proven ingredients — where innovation meets radiant skin.
BeautyStat Skincare
Made with melanin in mind, Black Girl Sunscreen is a game-changing, Black-owned brand that offers clean, no-residue sun protection for deeper skin tones. Nourishing, lightweight, and invisible — because everyone deserves to glow safely.
Ulta Beauty
Celebrating the beauty of diversity, Black Radiance is a trusted, Black-owned cosmetics brand offering bold, affordable makeup designed specifically for deeper skin tones. Empowering self-expression through rich pigments and inclusive shades.
Black Radiance
Rooted in science and inspired by sisterhood, Bolden is a Black-owned skincare brand dedicated to empowering women of color. With effective, melanin-friendly formulas, Bolden promotes healthy, radiant skin — and confidence that shines through.
Boldenusa.com: Effective Skincare for Richly Pigmented Skin
Effortless haircare for not-so-basic hair. Bread Beauty Supply is a Black-owned brand redefining wash day with clean, minimal, and texture-inclusive products. Made for curls, kinks, and coils — with a fresh take on modern hair essentials.
Bread Beauty Supply
Clean, natural, and performance-driven, Briogeo is a Black-owned haircare brand rooted in inclusivity and wellness. With thoughtfully crafted formulas for every hair type and texture, Briogeo blends science and nature to nourish hair from the inside ...
Briogeo
A pioneer in textured haircare, Camille Rose is a Black woman–owned brand known for its gourmet-inspired, botanical-rich formulas. Handcrafted with love and science, each product nourishes curls, coils, and kinks with moisture, strength, and style.
Camille Rose
Wellness for women of color, by women of color. Brown Girl Jane is a Black-owned brand offering plant-based solutions — from fragrance to supplements — designed to support balance, beauty, and well-being from the inside out.
Brown Girl Jane
A trusted Black-owned haircare brand dedicated to nourishing natural curls with wholesome, gentle ingredients. TGIN offers effective products that promote healthy, moisturized, and manageable hair for all textures.
Thank God It's Natural
Inclusivity is at the forefront of makeup brand UOMA with a vast range of shades in foundations, eyeshadows and more, providing options for every complexion.
UOMA Beauty
Backed by a near 30-year cosmetology career, founder Maya Smith's haircare collection is made with textured hair in mind. The versatile formulas in the shampoos, conditioners and more are science-backed and meant to transport you back in time with '9...
The Doux
Sacha began its operations in Trinidad and Tobago in 1979. The original idea was to create a beauty line that helped Caribbean women get representation, but over the years, the brand has blossomed into one that's used by women of color everywhere.
Sacha Cosmetics
Keta Burke-Williams' fragrance brand Ourside is disrupting the perfume industry with its unconventional scents. Featuring names like Nostalgia, Dusk and Moon Dust, each of Ourside's perfumes are crafted in small batches in Bronx, New York and created...
Ourside
Karen Young founded Oui the People as a way to cater to women's needs while shaving, starting with sustainably made razors that are gentle on skin. Plus, her brand is rooted in language that highlights caring for people's bodies rather than marketing...
OUI the People
Athletic Wear 👟
Empowering through movement, ICONI is a Black woman-owned activewear brand built on performance, purpose, and confidence. With squat-proof designs and bold messaging, ICONI inspires you to look good, feel good, and do good — both in and out of the gy...
ICONI
Swimwear 🌊
Where wanderlust meets style. Nomads Swimwear is a Black-owned brand inspired by global travel, bold individuality, and body confidence. Designed to empower and celebrate all shapes, each piece blends fashion-forward design with high-quality material...
Nomads Swimwear
Jewelry 💎
Bold, vibrant, and full of soul — Lola Ade is a Black-owned jewelry brand inspired by global heritage and modern elegance. Handcrafted with intention, each piece is a statement of culture, confidence, and individuality.
Lola Ade
Co-founder and designer Gina Love's law-turned-design career helped bring her jewelry brand to life. The line consists of handcrafted fine jewelry using only 18-, 22-, or 24-karat gold or sterling silver, along with sustainably sourced metals and gem...
Auvere
Sleepwear 🤎
Where comfort meets elegance. Melda Moda is a Black-owned luxury sleepwear brand designed to make you feel as good as you look — even in rest. With silky fabrics, refined details, and timeless silhouettes, every piece brings sophistication to your sl...
Melda Moda
Bookstores 🤎
A Black-owned bookstore dedicated to uplifting diverse voices and stories. Brave + Kind curates books that inspire courage, compassion, and community — creating a space where every reader feels seen and celebrated.
Brave and Kind Books
Cafe con Libros is more than a bookseller. It’s a bookshop, a cafe and a feminist community space in Brooklyn, New York where women in particular can feel safe and welcome. And with book clubs dedicated specifically to women of color and feminism, it...
Cafe con Libros
Semicolon Bookstore and gallery is a Black woman-owned bookstore that also has a nonprofit arm dedicated to raising literacy rates in Chicago by providing free books to Chicago Public School students.
Semicolon Bookstore & Gallery
The Lit. Bar opened on National Indie Bookstore Day in 2019 as the only bookshop in the Bronx. Today, it serves the community it calls home with events, a wine bar and a mission statement that’s as lit as the spot itself. Founder Noëlle Santos has cr...
The Lit. Bar
This bookstore and coffee shop located in the City of Brotherly Love — founded by Marc Lamont Hill — not only serves high-quality java and impeccably curated literature, but was made to provide a safe space for people in underserved communities to ac...
Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books
Hannah Oliver Depp, the Black and queer founder of Loyalty Bookstores, started the company to bring more diverse voices to the industry and to provide a space that feels like home for marginalized people. And for those of us who seek refuge on the pa...
Loyalty Bookstore