5 Questions With Black Opal’s Newest Black Female Duo

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With Black business owners being hit the hardest during the pandemic, there is a growing concern to start new black businesses.  However, buying a Black-owned business can be a start, too. 

A year ago, CEO Desiree Rogers and President Cheryl Mayberry-McKissack, bought Black Opal, an iconic makeup brand for Black women, making the company Black and woman-owned for the first time. Rogers was also the first African-American Social Secretary, under the Obama administration, and Mayberry-McKissack, was the former President of Digital at Johnson Publishing Company, who published Ebony magazine. Rogers and Mayberry-McKissack also purchased, another iconic Black beauty brand, Fashion Fair in November 2019.