Why Is ‘black Friday’ Called ‘black Friday’?

HILARY STOUT, NY Times: Business
Thu, 11/23/2017 - 7:03am

The term has come to denote joyous commercial excess, stupendous deals and big profits. But it wasn’t always this way.

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