‘The spirit of our ancestry’: how California’s Black Wall Streets are changing their cities

Business districts in cities across the US offer economic opportunity - but can they have an impact beyond the world of retail?

Like hundreds of other shopping districts, Sacramento's Florin Square had to shut its doors during the pandemic.

The space in California's state capital is part cultural center and incubator and has been home to Black entrepreneurs since 2003. At the mercy of Covid-19 closures, evolving guidelines and elusive government aid, many similar operations failed to recover, with an estimated 200,000 more small businesses shuttering in 2020 than in the average year.