Your Black Shopping Guide for the Holiday Season
Keep it Black this holiday season with our shopping guide.

**This one is going to be a little too long for email. I Highly recommend looking at it on the Substack app if you can.**
Hello, I hope this finds you on a full stomach and at peace this holiday. With the help of Shavaughn; the Wake and Think Collective has created a Black shopping guide for the upcoming holiday season. It is important to make sure that we are using our dollars to support the community! Let’s kick off Black Friday by buying Black!
Foreword: Shavaughn is from and lives in Oakland and I am located in San Diego. Most of the shopping options are local to Oakland or Southern California, but not all. Much Love from California!
Clothing/Body care


Restaurants (Oakland and San Diego locations)
Media/Books
The Cutting Room Floor Podcast
Nonprofits/Black Organizations


West Oakland Cultural Action Network
I want to thank Shavaughn again for helping put this list together! Subscribe to her Substack especially if you are located in the Bay Area; she knows what’s poppin in the Bay. Remember that our dollars are a vote. Make sure that you are voting for US this holiday season. We make dope shit anyway.
Stay woke,
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