More than a directory

It started with a phone book

In the early 1980s, if you wanted to find a person, a place or a government office, you opened a phone book. And if you wanted to find a Black-owned business, you opened The Black Pages. It was the directory our community turned to first.

Montego of Heard Entertainment never forgot it. Whenever the chance came up, he talked about what that directory meant, and over time the conversation turned into a decision: it was time to bring the idea back.

Why “new”

A list of names and numbers is no longer enough. The New Black Pages lets you search by city and category, see a business on the map, read news written for us, and learn who is behind the counter. Business owners can manage their own listing, and verified businesses carry a badge that shows their ownership has been reviewed.

Where we are going

We are filling the directory city by city across the United States. After that, the goal is the rest of the world. Black-owned businesses operate in every country, and they are the hardest to find in places where the Black population is small. Those are the businesses that most need to be seen, and we intend to give them a home here.