Gladys Brangman wins 2025 Key Person of the Year for founding BLOC and reshaping Ithaca’s business landscape through equity and leadership.

The murder of George Floyd on May 25th has unleashed the pain and injustice we have all been experiencing for decades. The long list of innocent victims, that keeps getting longer, has reached the point of no more. The streets are filled with protests and the voices of pain, fear, and anger are heard all over the United States and beyond, following months of the world pandemic, Covid-19,  that has had and still has, economic impacts on our businesses.