Meet Derrick Faulcon and Zewiditu Jewel, co-owners of Cloudy Donut, which offers vegan, small-batch donuts with more than 50 unique flavors like strawberry sage, double chocolate brownie crumble and more.
"The goal for me was to create a classic Americana donut shop, but also with a modern and sophisticated twist," Faulcon said.
He continued; "We wanted to create a donut that didn't have a high flavor memory, meaning, like you can eat one or two or maybe three of the donuts (and) it wouldn't feel really heavy. So we have a very niche product in the sense that our donuts are very light and fluffy, hence the name cloudy."
But this is more than a story about a donut shop. It's also a story about two trailblazers revolutionizing what it means to be Black business owners in America, making history as the first Black-owned food and beverage business in both Brooklyn Heights and Nolita.