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black fashion world foundation Empowering Black Fashionpreneurs In the US today there is a systemic and entrenched lack of access to opportunity for black fashion designers retailers and marketing professionals. Black entreprenuers were three times as likely as whites to say that they needed financing in 2014 but chose not to apply for it according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of census data. When they did seek funding just 47 of black business owners got the full amount requested from banks credit unions and other financial institutions versus 76 of white. wall street journal In pursuit of the American dream minority business owners often face an uphill battle.