Entrepreneurs call out hard truth: ‘We don’t support each other in Memphis’

It wasn’t the usual, feel-good entrepreneurship talk that drew the loudest reaction at the Tri-State Defender’s first “TSD In The Community” forum of 2026 on African American entrepreneurship.

It was a hard truth, said out loud.

“Black people do not support each other,” Alandas Dobbins told the room, pausing as the words landed. “We do not in the way that we need to.”…

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