When sisters Lanie and Char Edwards launched Black on the Block in Los Angeles in 2021, they didn’t envision a national tour.
They were just two young Black women with fashion brands, frustrated at the lack of visibility for small Black-owned businesses. So they threw together a Juneteenth pop-up. Seventy vendors signed up, fifteen hundred people showed up and four years later, that pop-up has grown into a movement.
Now, for the first time, Black on the Block is coming to Houston.
“Houston has always been one of the top cities people ask us about,” said Lanie. “Every time we posted another city, the comments were like, ‘What about Houston?’ So we knew we had to make it happen.”…