“For Black entrepreneurs, now is the moment to pursue the attention of investors and consumers, despite the turmoil from the pandemic, small business advisers say.

“If there was [ever] a time when there was a spotlight and at least heightened conversation around supporting and finding and exploring Black-owned businesses, this is that time,”  Lauren Maillian, chief executive of Digitalundivided, an incubator for Black and Latina women entrepreneurs, told an online audience Wednesday evening during The Wall Street Journal’s Race and Progress at Work forum. “Take advantage of it.”