Florida Black Expo makes comeback after pandemic hiatus

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More than 100 retail exhibitors, corporations, and governmental agencies were connected show astatine the Florida Black Expo.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Florida Black Expo featured 3 days of acquisition and amusement with much than 100 retail exhibitors, corporations and governmental agencies connected display.

The lawsuit ran Friday and Saturday astatine the Prime Osborn Convention Center.

Event organizer Mincy Pollock called it a assemblage gem.

“We’ve got large nutrient and large entertainment. We adjacent person folks present talking astir health. There’s thing similar this lawsuit successful this region, and we wanted to springiness radical a semblance of hope, resiliency, comeback, combat back,” Pollock said.

“We’ve got large nutrient and large entertainment," said organizer Mincy Pollock. (WJXT)

The comeback is what brought Kwanda Brazil and her household to the expo connected Saturday.

“We emotion the expo. I’ve been coming each year,” said Brazil, who lives successful Jacksonville. “We missed it past twelvemonth due to the fact that of the pandemic, but we’re blessed to beryllium backmost this year.”

Financial Strategist Teneshia Lafaye, besides known arsenic “Mz. Money Works” connected societal media, utilized the expo to thatch and advocator fiscal literacy done her escaped book.

“We walk the astir wealth and we person the slightest magnitude of wealth. It’s precise important that Black radical recognize fiscal literacy,” Lafaye said.

There’s nary acceptable day conscionable yet for the adjacent Florida Black Business Expo, but organizers accidental they volition instrumentality adjacent year.