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Black businesses hit hard by COVID-19 fight to stay afloat

by Associated Press
| June 2, 2020 12:03 AM

Detroit (AP) — Stephanie Byrd agonized over temporarily laying off nearly the entire staff at her family’s trio of Detroit businesses when the coronavirus pandemic hit.

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