Monday Spotlight, ADVISORY

EDITORS:

The following story has moved as this week’s Monday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

RACIAL INJUSTICE-BLM MERCHANDISE

Some white merchants on the craft marketplace Etsy are offering homespun products with a Black Lives Matter theme, including wine stoppers and garden gnomes. The sellers say they aren’t trying to make light of the issues or widen their profit margins with products that are more often associated with white suburbia than a protest movement. But to many onlookers, the sales through the crafts marketplace Etsy may straddle a line between supporting the effort and exploiting it. By Terry Tang. SENT: 1,000 words, photos.

—The AP