Hello, Cape Cod! If it's Saturday, that means we're introducing you to a terrific entrepreneur of color here on the sand bar.

Although the Wampanoag Trading Post and Gallery, located at 20 North Street in Mashpee, recently opened this past year, co-owners Paula Peters and Danielle Hill have been serving their communities for years as members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.

Crishana Wright is an African American immigrant from Old Harbor, St Catherine in Jamaica, who moved to Cape Cod four years ago. In 2019 Crishana was preparing for her wedding but to her surprise, there wasn’t an ethnic stylist available on the Cape that could provide the service she wanted.

As the Cape Cod community becomes enamored with the hoopla of the holidays, Amplify had the chance to catch up with Marcus Hendricks, owner of Wampanoag Shells, an indigenous-owned business that offers handmade and authentic Native jewelry and cuisine like stuffed quahogs.

If you're looking for black-owned businesses to support on Cape Cod, you can now locate them through Amplify POC Cape Cod, a grassroots economic sustainability initiative founded by Tara Vargas Wallace to enhance the visibility of businesses owned by people of color on Cape Cod. Emily Tullock reports.

Mr. Roberts is from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Both he and his wife migrated to the U.S. in 1995. Mr. Roberts is the Pastor of Marston Mills Community Church. Apart from the love for his community and natural giving nature of his personality, Mr. Roberts saw becoming a realtor another way he can give back in a very beneficial way.

Mrs. Sheril E. Smith is a proud mother of two adult children, a wife, and professional educator for the past 28 years. In 2006, Mrs. Smith migrated to the state of Georgia from Jamaica as an international teacher along with her family. As an educator, she taught in Macon GA for 13 years and attended Wallin University where she obtained her Master's in Education and Minored in Special Needs.

Owner is 27 year old Danielle Blake, an immigrant from Jamaica, who lived on Nantucket for a period of time before moving to the mainland (Cape Cod). Danielle’s love for beauty started at a young age, playing with make-up and loving the idea that she can make a person feel so special with the touch of her own art.

JoMama’s Yarmouth is known for its famous New York Bagels. Their menu consists of both breakfast and lunch. A few items you can find on the menu include delicious bagels with flavored cream cheeses, breakfast sandwiches, cold and hot sandwiches, soups, coffee, smoothes, cookies, salads etc. and they also make catered sandwich plates for meetings!