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Sweet Success

etween schoolwork and running pop-up events, the young chefs of Our Sons Bakery crank out up to and with his brother Samuel Turner. “We weren’t serious about it at first, but then we eventually followed through.” With organizing help from an adult, youth programmer Bre Suggs, the entrepreneurial venture for Black and Hispanic boys now takes orders online for delivery and pick-up near its northeastside headquarters. The team, whose youngest member is 6, has also collaborated with Tinker Coffee and filled large corporate orders. “I got an email from Target in June, and I thought it was a scammer,” Suggs says. “Then the lady came to one of our pop-ups and asked if I got her email. I was like, ‘That was for real?’”

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