27 Black-Owned Bay Area Businesses to Support Now & Always

Goods

Cincha 
Stylish yet practical, Cincha is a travel belt that secures personal bags and coats to your luggage leaving your hands free to hold on to more important things… like little hands. Every purchase means 100 airline miles is donated to the nonprofit Miles4Migrants, which helps to reconnect migrant families. 

Taylor Jay’s
With the approach that “We Are Every Woman”, this Oakland based clothing collection prides itself on inclusivity and sustainability for clothing that will not only last a lifetime but look and feel incredible.  

Beija-Flor Naturals
Using fair trade and organic botanical ingredients from Brazil, founder Stevonne Ratliff began crafting skin products to treat her own skin hyper and hypo pigmentation. Years later and with stores in Oakland and San Francisco, Beija-Flor carries a full product line for face, hair and body. 

Iyoba
Born out of a desire to relieve her son’s eczema using natural products, Oakland mom Efiya created what is now her famous artisan soap. Today, she handcrafts organic, natural hair, body and home products, all of which are paraben, synthetic fragrance and sulfate free.

Blk Girls Green House
This lovely open-air plant and home goods store is also a community space but currently accepting shopping by appointment only.

Oakland’s Own
Every purchase from this store means an investment back into the Oakland community through youth empowerment, mentoring services and community programs.

Sweet Treats & Coffee

DeeLee Cakes
The inspiration behind Chef DeReath Times’ creations comes from the memory of her Grandma and a heavy dose of her secret family ingredient… love. Her cinnamon rolls and sweet potato pound cake will blow your socks off!

Yvonne’s Southern Sweets
Yvonne started out with sharing praline treats with friends and co-workers and expanded to cakes, cookies and pies that led to a contract with Super Bowl 50 and is currently a vendor for the Chase center. 

Sextant Coffee Roasters
Partnering with farms in Ethiopia, Kenya and Colombia, first generation Ethiopian founder Kinani Ahmed brings the best coffee beans from Africa to San Francisco.

James and the Giant Cupcake 
Using fresh and sustainable ingredients from farmers’ markets, Eurydice Manning’s custom cupcakes and cakes are all the rage at three locations in the Oakland area. 

Rasa Cafe
Rasa in sanskrit means flavor and this cafe uniquely blends influences from Africa with India in their coffee and tea menu – try the award winning Rose latte! 

Pietisserie
Pietisserie focuses on one thing and one thing alone: PIES. With fifteen toothsome pies to choose from, your dilemma comes down to this: key lime pie or black bottom walnut pie?!

Super Juiced
A queer and black owned smoothie and acai bowl shop, the menu at Super Juiced is seasonal and draws organic ingredients from small, local farms. All their nut milks are made in-house making this the place to go for a delicious (and nutritious) snack in Oakland.