The Greater Los Angeles Black Leaders Collective (GLABLC) represents a massive shift in regional power that extends far beyond the borders of any single neighborhood. This is a Los Angeles County-wide coalition, led by executives and organizations whose influence is felt from the halls of Sacramento to the global stage.
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While its leadership—including Sarah R. Harris of the Black Business Association, Cynthia Mitchell-Heard of the Los Angeles Urban League, and Angela Gibson-Shaw of the African American Chamber of Commerce—resides and operates across the vast landscape of Southern California, their unified presence creates a “super-coalition” equipped to drive economic equity, community recovery, and systemic change when it comes to coordinate funding, advocate for transformative policy, and build infrastructure to empower historically disinvested Black communities.
The most urgent mission of the Collective is to change a system where Black developers and entrepreneurs are often “at the table” but rarely allowed to “design the menu.” For decades, the advocacy for Black-owned businesses in the district was fragmented, with individual organizations fighting separate battles at City Hall…