List of BIPOC Craft Chocolate Companies

*Sol Cacao is a bean-to-bar maker in New York City*

I do my best to keep Chocolate Noise neutral politically, but I've been outraged and saddened this week at the police brutality in Minnesota and now across the country. It's time to say something.

Usually, 5 percent of the profits of my private chocolate tastings go toward chocolate tastings and education at READ 718 and Emma's Torch, but with COVID-19, we haven't been able to do those recently. So today I donated that money (and more) to Communities United Against Police Brutality (CUAPB). I hope you'll join me in saying how much #blacklivesmatter.

One way we can do this is by first acknowledging how white our bean-to-bar movement is, and then by working to support craft chocolate companies owned or co-owned by black people. A few years ago I put together a list of another minority in craft chocolate, women, and now, it’s time for a list of African Americans making chocolate from scratch.

(As you’ll see below, I’m also working on a list of international black bean-to-bar makers and a list of other people of color (POC) who make craft chocolate in the United States.)

As I wrote in my book, chocolate is for everybody!

If you are a black or POC chocolate maker and would like to be included in this directory (or need to update your information), please email me at megan@chocolatenoise.com. And if you have someone you’d like to nominate to add to the list, please send me a note as well!