Diverse-Owned Businesses in the Lehigh Valley to Support in 2026

A Southern kitchen in Bethlehem that has been cooking for more than a decade, a bookshop in Coopersburg that sells blind dates with books, a bilingual licensed counseling center in Allentown, a barbershop in Easton going 16 years, a wellness cafe and juice bar, and a company that grows 22 kinds of hot pepper and turns them into sauce. The Lehigh Valley is three cities and a ring of boroughs, and this guide covers all three.

Every business named here links to its profile, where each ownership tag shows the source it came from. For the whole set, filter the Lehigh Valley hub.

Quick answer

1. Eat Southern at The Bayou Southern Kitchen and Bar in Bethlehem, or Jamaican at Princess Authentic Jamaican.
2. Get Brazilian steak at Rios Brazilian Steakhouse, or a juice at Green Vida Company.
3. Buy a book and a coffee at Medina's Books & Coffee in Coopersburg.
4. Book a cut at Cuts & Shaves Barbershop in Allentown or Barbershop Plus in Easton.
5. Find bilingual counseling at Counseling Solutions LV, or therapy at Renew Wellness & Psychotherapy.
6. Sort childcare at Palmer Childcare Academy or Petite Scholars Learning Center.
7. Get the deck built by Milltek Decking & Railing and the gutters by The Brothers that Just do Gutters.
8. The Lehigh Valley hub carries all 78 listings across 15 categories.

Where should I eat and drink?

The Bayou Southern Kitchen and Bar in Bethlehem has served Southern cooking for more than 11 years and is the sit-down room on this list. Princess Authentic Jamaican in Allentown takes online orders for pickup. Rios Brazilian Steakhouse does churrasco in the city and travels for events. Smmackin Sammiches in Bethlehem asks you to order from its own site rather than an app, which keeps the margin in the kitchen.

Green Vida Company is a wellness cafe and juice bar in Allentown, and Valley Prep Meal Prep cooks the week ahead if you are training. Medina's Books & Coffee in Coopersburg sells books, coffee and blind dates with a wrapped novel. 22PEPPERS in Breinigsville grows 22 varieties of super-hot pepper and bottles the sauce.

Who cuts hair, and who does skin?

Three barbershops, each with its own room: Cuts & Shaves Barbershop in Allentown, G&A Christian Barbershop also in the city, and Barbershop Plus, a family shop in Easton going 16 years.

For hair: Michael Perry Hair Studio in Bethlehem does cuts, color, extensions and curly hair, Natural Hair I Am in Coplay works on natural hair, and Empress Ja Salon and More does finger waves and ponytail styles. For skin and brows, LovelyyFaces Spa Lounge covers brows, lashes, waxing and permanent makeup, Beauty by Tajah runs spa services, and Good Anatomy Medical Aesthetic in Emmaus does injectables and skin rejuvenation under a board-certified nurse practitioner.

Health, counseling and care

Counseling Solutions LV is a bilingual counseling center in Allentown licensed by the state drug and alcohol and human services departments. Renew Wellness & Psychotherapy is a boutique therapy practice, BTG Counseling and Educational Services works in Bethlehem, and C.Bello Enterprises provides mental health assessments for U visa, T visa, VAWA and extreme hardship immigration cases, which is specialized work that is hard to find locally.

For care at home: Care Above All Home Care and Simply Comfort Home Care support seniors and people recovering from injury, Lehigh Valley Adult Services in Easton runs home and community-based programs for adults, Comfort Calls in Nazareth provides companionship by phone, and Visit Vans Transportation drives people to their appointments. Majestic Muma supports births, including cesarean and medicated births.

To train: The Refinery Fitness in Coopersburg runs HIIT, yoga and kettlebell classes, Fitness by August coaches in Easton, and BodyWorks by Kira takes beginners. Bohdy Glo Wellness and The Kulcha Kernel, which makes organic body care alongside Afrocentric art, cover the shelf at home.

Childcare, schooling and youth

This is one of the strongest parts of the Valley record. Palmer Childcare Academy & Learning Center takes children from six weeks to 13 years with before and after school care, Petite Scholars Learning Center runs infant through preschool programs, Kula Children's Center and Millie's Creative Learning Center in Easton both take younger children, and Resurrected Life Children's Academy works through a community development corporation.

For older children, The Caring Place is a youth development center running after-school programs in Allentown, InnaStar teaches filmmaking and confidence, and Fine Feather Foundation runs art-based programs. Precision Talent International trains adults, and the Workforce Board Lehigh Valley connects workers and employers across the region.

The trades, the move and the office

Milltek Decking & Railing builds decks out of Bethlehem, The Brothers that Just do Gutters covers Lehigh, Northampton, Bucks, Berks and Monroe counties, and Premier Sealcoating seals and stripes asphalt. Custom Weatherization does the envelope, Belisaire Painting paints, JCJ Property Maintenance remodels, and RestoPros of Lehigh Valley handles water, fire and mold damage. Wall2Wall Pest Control Services deals with pests and Home Sweet Home Quality Cleaning Services cleans afterward.

Moving: TC Moving and Affordable Guys Moving and Storage both move and store, and Swint Hauling & Disposal Service in Easton takes away what you are not keeping.

For interiors, Wandra Cain Interiors in Easton designs residential spaces and kitchens, Board & Brush Easton teaches you to make your own wood signs, and Signs & Awnings has made custom signs and awnings for more than three decades.

Professional help

Stamped by Nicole Tax & Notary Services is a notary, loan signing agent and IdentoGO fingerprinting provider in one, and Notarynista Haus notarizes in Bethlehem. In law, Taisha Tolliver-Duran is a partner at King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul practicing business, real estate, unemployment and workers' compensation law, and the Law Office of Spitale, Vargo, Madsen, & Blair works across eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey.

In real estate, HomeSnipe Real Estate is a boutique brokerage licensed in Pennsylvania and New York, and Rennard Clayton works valuations and sales at Coldwell Banker Hearthside.

On the business side: PRISM AI Consultants and Relkent AI Automations both implement automation rather than advise on it, MosAL Consulting applies military transformation methods, Oxford Rose Consulting in Center Valley works on compliance and culture, Faces International Marketing and Development does organizational development, AmericaVen and Wallace & Beautification Services do IT and business consulting, and McKinney Media and Savant Media Creative Agency shoot and produce. Luxe Events & Designs plans the event and DJ Romeo G plays it.

What the record does not cover yet

There are 78 published listings across the Valley: 45 in Allentown, 13 in Bethlehem, 11 in Easton, and one or two each in Center Valley, Coopersburg, Nazareth, Emmaus, Coplay, Breinigsville and Macungie. Catasauqua, Hellertown, Northampton, Bath, Slatington, Bangor, Pen Argyl, Wind Gap and the Carbon County boroughs including Jim Thorpe, Lehighton and Palmerton have none yet.

Whitehall Township is a deliberate absence rather than an oversight: another Pennsylvania hub already claims a borough of the same name, so businesses there are on our outreach list instead of on this page.

By type, the thin ends are events, arts, finance and technology. That is a gap in the record rather than a description of the Valley, and a free listing is the way to close it.

Common mistakes

• Assuming the whole Valley is Allentown. More than a third of these businesses are in Bethlehem or Easton, and the boroughs in between have their own.
• Reading both tags the same way. Most listings here carry a Black-owned tag and 16 carry a Latino-owned tag, some carry both, and each listing names what its source actually claimed.
• Expecting a storefront for the care businesses. Home care, companionship calls and transportation all come to you.
• Skipping the childcare listings. Childcare and after-school programs are one of the deepest parts of this record and one of the hardest things to search for elsewhere.

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