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The world's first and only Black-owned sliced bread company | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Natalie Heller, Local-ish ABC7 Over the course of the past year, Charles Alexander, Mark Edmond, and Jamel Lewis have developed the first Black-owned gourmet sliced bread brand, The Black Bread Company. It all started when Edmond went to the grocery store. 'My wife gave me a grocery list, and at the top of the […]

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