Time to celebrate your Cincy Power Awards choices!

ContributedYou nominated Cincinnati’s best Black businesses and you voted for the winners. Now it’s time to celebrate the winners and all of our Black businesses. The Cincinnati Herald invites you to come out for an afternoon of fun, food, music, awards, and excitement at the Cincy Power Awards Gala on Sunday, February 16, 2025 from 3 – 6 p.m.The Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce commissioned a study with the University of Cincinnati Alpaugh Family Economics Center for the Greater Cincinnati on Black-owned businesses in the region. The results were astounding.The report found that the economic impact of Black-owned businesses in Southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky was more than $2.8 billion in 2023. That figure included $1.5 billion in direct sales in 2023 and more than 9,000 jobs, plus an additional $1.4 billion in indirect sales, which indirectly supported another 7,448 jobs. Eric H. Kearney, AACC president, said, “I would like to see Black-owned businesses spread out and appreciate all of the opportunities and growth that’s available in Ohio.”Cincinnati Herald Publisher Walter L. White said, “We used to do a ‘best of Black Cincinnati’ contest in print years ago. This year, we decided to try something...