About
Black-Owned Brunswick is a community-centered platform that connects long-time locals, visitors, and newcomers with Black-owned businesses across the Golden Isles and the broader Coastal Georgia region.
Through our digital directory, membership program, and social media marketing services, we help increase visibility and expand the digital footprint of Black-owned businesses. We spotlight the visionaries behind the storefronts — the makers, service providers, artists, farmers, chefs, and culture bearers of our community.
Through intentional storytelling, strategic marketing support, and meaningful connection, we ensure Black-owned businesses are not discovered by chance, but supported by design.
Courtney McGill, Founder
I’m Courtney McGill, founder of Black-Owned Brunswick. What started as a passion project, simply documenting my experiences visiting local Black-owned businesses and learning the stories of the visionaries behind them, has grown into so much more.
Growing up in this region, specifically within the Gullah Geechee community of Hogg Hummock on Sapelo Island, and spending the past decade living and working in Brunswick across public service sectors, I learned firsthand how much history, creativity, and resilience lives here. Black-Owned Brunswick is my way of honoring that legacy and expanding spaces where our contributions and ingenuity can be celebrated.
Drawing on my background in sociology, anthropology, and African American Studies, I approach this work with care and intention, documenting who we are, preserving our stories, and strengthening the connections that sustain us. Black-Owned Brunswick exists to help people find each other, consumers, newcomers, longtime residents, and business owners alike, so that our entrepreneurs can grow with confidence and our community can see its own power reflected back.
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR OUR WORK WITH A GIFT
Since February 2023 Black-Owned Brunswick has been creating space for Black-owned businesses, creatives, and the culture and community we share to be amplified and to thrive in the Coastal Georgia area.
Thank you in advance for your financial support of Black-Owned Brunswick. Your gift is a token of support of the mission and the future of the platform.
Contact us.
contact@blackownedbwk.com