Is It Worth It?

What Anifa’s letter, Hanifa’s struggles, and Ami Colé’s closure reveal about the cost of building while Black and female.

I read Anifa’s letter about Hanifa and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

Not because of the delayed orders.
Not because of the backlash.

But because of the question sitting quietly underneath all of it:

Is it all worth it?

That question haunts every Black woman who has ever tried to build something from nothing.

Only 3% of Black women-owned busin…