Summary
This brief reports on interviews with eleven Black small business owners focusing on their expectations around succession planning, and the impact that awareness of worker cooperatives would have on their decision-making process to sell their business to a worker cooperative when they decide to exit their business. An exit from their business also includes retirement from the business. This brief also discusses the Black small business owners’ access to capital, and capacity building. The interviews concluded with questions asked to determine the assistance the participants would need to sell their business, and what would be most important to them in their decision to sell their business to a worker cooperative when they decide to exit their business