For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Greater Savannah Black Chamber of Commerce held its anticipated Black business expo. The event ran from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the harborside ballroom at the Savannah Hyatt Regency on Saturday.President and CEO of the Greater Savannah Black Chamber of Commerce Moncello Stewart called the expo a success.”We’ve had hundreds of people stopped by. We got over 50 vendors out here. We got some basic panels, we got art, we got food, we got fashion. It’s an amazing time to connect community with businesses,” Stewart said. The expo provided everything needed for someone to jumpstart a business, including keynote presentations with state senator Derek Mallow and even free professional headshots.“It’s not cheap to run a business. And taking headshots is not inexpensive as well. So, it’s really great to be able to kind of give people that opportunity they might not have before,” said Somi Benson-Jaja, owner of Shots by Somi. Other business owners said the expo had already brought them more than 40 new customers.

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