Business is blooming

Small independent retailers have enough challenges without adding “pandemic” or “civil unrest” to their list. But Lee’s Flower and Card Shop, a third-generation institution on U Street in Washington, D.C. — once known as the city’s “Black Broadway” — has stayed strong through many challenges, from a changing neighborhood to all the uncertainties of 2020.

People want to support Black businesses during this time of protest against systemic racism. And the floral industry has fared well during the pandemic, says co-owner and president Stacie Lee Banks, 57.

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