As the sun rose high over Tropicana Field Saturday morning, the parking lot below filled with tents heralding a new kind of weekend market, one that highlights Black-owned small businesses.
Tables filled with fashion accessories and homemade skin care lines. Food vendors heated up grills, raring to sell hushpuppies, lobster bites and dishes loaded with secret recipe “Smackin’ Garlic Butter.”
There were bucket hats and snow cones, waist trainers that promised a Coke-bottle figure, and soy candles decorated with glitter. Sea moss, the health food of the moment, found its way into smoothies, elixirs, and soaps.
