In 2007, with no experience in digital marketing, Derrick and Ramunda Young turned their commitment to Black culture and love of reading into Mahogany Books, an online destination for Black literature. Fourteen years later, their business now includes a thriving online store, a retail shop located in the Anacostia Arts Center in Washington D.C. and a new store located in National Harbor in Maryland.
between May and October of last year, we sold 100,000 books online. Going into the holidays, it increased, giving Mahogany Books multi-million dollar revenue status.