Rappers, a grocery company and a retiree rally behind Cxffeeblack
“This is what the people who discovered coffee meant for it to do, to bring people together,” said Bartholomew Jones who founded the coffee company with his wife Renata Henderson in 2019. “And there is no better place than Memphis to plant the seed of that fruit and watch it grow.” (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
An award-winning hip-hop artist, a family-owned grocery group and a retiree are just three members of the Memphis community coming together to support Cxffeeblack.
“This is what the people who discovered coffee meant for it to do, to bring people together,” said Bartholomew Jones who founded the coffee company with his wife Renata Henderson in 2019. “And there is no better place than Memphis to plant the seed of that fruit and watch it grow.”
Last year, Cxffeeblack announced it would open a stand-alone brick-and-mortar cafe and coffee roaster in Mitchell Heights, a predominantly Black neighborhood north of Summer Avenue in Memphis near its current location.
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