The Black Maker’s Market was in the Belk Dining Hall on the second floor Feb. 28 to celebrate Black History Month.
The market boasted over four pop-up shops selling jewelry, vintage clothes, body and skin care, smoothies and juices, and a lot more.
Shaliyah Best, a freshman at WPU, attended the market.
“Black history month means the opportunity to relive the events of how we got here and where we are today,” said Best.
Students were also able to enjoy a free smoothie from Hip Hop Smoothies when they used their student ID’s to sign in. The special menu included Gangsta Paradise, I Got 5 On It, Diced Pineapples, California Love, and Rapper’s Delight.
Those flavors included ingredients like strawberries, bananas, pineapples, even peanut butter and Fruit Punch Gatorade.
One of the shops at the market was Koko Body Care, an all-natural skin and bodycare based in Apex. The products are all free of any synthetic additives and are sourced from local farms.
Owner and founder Debi Ndindjock said it was her second time at the Black Maker’s Market.
“The one thing that inspires me so much for young people, especially people of color, to see other people of color doing business and doing it well,” said Ndinkock.
The market played late 90’s and early 2000’s R&B while students walked around browsing at all the different items.
This was just one of the events WPU did to celebrate Black History Month on campus. As February comes to an end, the Black Markers Market closes out the school’s effort to celebrate the black students on campus.