Success Stories: How ESPN’s Championing Black Businesses Program Scores In NBA Cities

This year marks the fifth anniversary of ESPN’s Champion Black Businesses (CBB) program, a special milestone of ESPN’s commitment to leverage the power of sport to support and serve the communities in which sports fans live and thrive. The journey from the program’s inception to the present day has paved a path for the 2024 businesses to achieve new levels of success. ESPN continues to partner with Black-owned and women-led cultural marketing agency Seven Elements Group on the program. This year’s selected businesses from NBA cities in the Eastern and Western Conference — Greenwood Park Gallery and Framing, The Edge Harlem, Kobi Co., and Urban Dessert Lab —follow in the footsteps of previous businesses that embody the spirit of economic growth for local communities that the program seeks to impact. As ESPN’s Champion Black Businesses celebrates its fifth anniversary, the achievements of these four businesses exemplify the program’s success in fostering entrepreneurship and community development. This milestone ensures that the program’s impact will continue to resonate for years. As the NBA Summer League schedule concludes tonight with the Memphis Grizzlies playing the Miami Heat (8 ET, ESPN, ESPN+), Front Row caught up with Kobi Co. founder Kobi Gregory, who is...