The mayors of Chicago and Washington, D.C. promoted Black-owned businesses on Black Friday.
Both Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser published tweets Friday encouraging shoppers to go to Black-owned businesses.
The city of Chicago is supporting Black Shop Friday, whose goal is to raise awareness of Black-owned businesses.
Black Friday is dedicated to raising awareness of local black-owned businesses by calling for people to commit to visit and purchase from at least one black-owned business brick-and- mortar or online, product or service as part of their regular routine on the busiest shopping day of the year, according to the Black Shop Friday website.
Users can search for Black-owned businesses in the Chicago area.
The Black Shop Friday initiative was promoted by the Chicago Department of Business Affairs Consumer Protection in a tweet.
The offices of Bowser and Lightfoot were reached out to Fox News.
Lightfoot was previously criticised in May for her decision to only grant one-on-one interviews to Black and Brown reporters upon the two-year anniversary of taking office in Chicago.
One Latino Chicago Tribune reporter criticized the decision and declined an exclusive interview with Lightfoot in May because her office would not lift the condition of granting exclusive interviews to only Black and Brown reporters.