12 Black-Owned T-Shirt Companies That Are Killing The Game

Zazzle.com, an online retailer that sells customizable tshirts, is under fire for using  white models to sell black girl empowerment t-shirts. Shout out to our girl,  Jackie Aina  for sharing on her Twitter and bringing it to our attention.

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In a statement to Yahoo Style, Zazzle.com had this to say:

“Each designer is shown a series of pre-posed randomized model shots upon which their design is placed. It’s always possible that gender, race and other attributes of the model do not match up to the specifics of the design, given the ratio of our millions of designs to the 100 or so t-shirt styles we offer.  At Zazzle, we’re committed to diversity and are working on increasing the diversity of the pre-posed model shots and the t-shirt range itself.”

 

Our thoughts? Forget them. For true authentic black model representation check out thee following black owned T-shirt businesses.

Tees In The Trap

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Hgcapparel

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Shopbrandnubeing

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Melaninapparel

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Sweet Knowledge Clothing Company

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Beautiful in every shade

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The Cultured Savage

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Chocolate Chick Tees

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The Very Black Project

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Smart Brown Girl

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Feel free to share your listing of black-owned t-shirt companies in the comment section. We will be updating the list shortly!

For more black owned lists click HERE for lingerie, HERE for cosmetics, HERE for Beauty supply stores, and HERE for natural haircare brands.

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22 Comments

  1. Another black owned company is Sensationally Nappy

  2. Bon Bon Vie T-shirts and Apparel

  3. Stacey Stringfellow says:

    Don’t forget about Mess In A Bottle! A lot of her shirts are being worn by celebs and on shows like Insecure

  4. Soapbox Tees is a creative, urban and socially conscious lifestyle clothing company.

  5. Pernell Murray says:

    Another a Black owned clothing line is Black Entrepreneur Brand.

    A clothing line for black entrepreneurs.

  6. Betty Davis says:

    I love these two black t-shirt companies Napp2reality.com and brickbuilt.com. Best T-shirts

  7. Hey check out this black-owned company named Kemetistry

  8. Checkout another black owned teeshirt company, Power in Black.
    Powerinblack.com
    @powerinblacktees

  9. You can also check out My Black Clothing dot com. They are a black-owned clothing brand that gives back to communities and non-profit causes.

  10. Here’s our site 🙂

    sunkissed-with-love DOT com

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