The Madison Black Chamber of Commerce will honor Black-owned businesses and reflect on a decade of community growth at its annual Black Business Awards Recognition and Exhibition on March 26 at Monona Terrace Convention and Conference Center. This year’s event, themed “The Eras Ball,” features a signature dinner, seven business awards, a vendor marketplace and a women’s entrepreneurship panel.
Chamber President Camille Carter said the theme grew out of a desire to take stock of how far the organization and its members have come, particularly at a moment when the work feels more urgent than ever.
“We are just really facing some challenging times, politically and as a community, and so it just seemed appropriate,” Carter said. “We wanted to take this opportunity to really reflect on a lot of the good work we’ve done and a lot of the growth that the businesses have had over the last decade.”…