Ken L. Harris (Facebook photo)
As downtown continues to make a comeback, some are concerned about black-owned businesses disappearing.
Dozens of people outside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center Tuesday protested what they say is a declining number of black-owned businesses in downtown Detroit, McKenna Ross of the Detroit Free Press reports.
Honking and chants greeted motorists and pedestrians near city hall as part of the protest. They chanted “treat us fair, ’cause we ain’t going nowhere," Ross writes. Protesters says the businesses are being pushed out of downtown and Midtown through evictions and foreclosures.
“We have experienced a tremendous amount of change downtown. The businesses that kind of made it through the recession and maintained their enterprise want to be a part of the change that’s going on downtown and in Midtown,” Ken L. Harris, president and CEO of the Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce, tells the Freep.
