As Donald Trump was ramping up his first tumultuous run for the presidency in 2015, the country was outwardly starting to grapple with long-suppressed conversations about equity and social justice. In Brooklyn, an enterprising software developer named Anthony Edwards Jr. felt compelled to do something.
"I had a hunger to build something, and my girlfriend [now wife Janique Edwards] said, why don't you build an app to support Black-owned restaurants?" Anthony Edwards says. "I've always dabbled in building websites. And amid all these Black and white social-justice conversations, it felt like the perfect opportunity."
