New map highlights Richmond's Black businesses

How it works: The map showcases dozens of brick-and-mortar Black-owned Richmond businesses, including restaurants, fitness studios, business services, salons, child care centers, event spaces and more.

• Cultural institutions focused on Black history and culture are also featured, including the Richmond Slave Trail, the Black History Museum and Evergreen Cemetery, where Maggie Walker, a Richmonder and the nation's first Black woman to own a bank, is buried.
• The map has a high concentration of businesses in the city center and north of the river, but there's a strong showing in Chesterfield County, too, particularly in and around Midlothian.

Zoom in: The JWC Foundation is just getting started with the map, and invites local Black entrepreneurs to submit their business for inclusion.

• The foundation also hosts regular classes and events to help aspiring or existing entrepreneurs of color with coaching, business plans and strategy.

The bottom line: Richmond has a rich and diverse Black-owned business scene and it's now easier than ever to find and support them.