On any given weekend, many restaurants and lounges that primarily cater to African American patrons are visibly thriving. DJs draw crowds. Tables are full. Lines form outside. By most outward measures, business is good. Yet a closer look—often in the most basic space of any public establishment—reveals a different reality. Restrooms in some of these venues are frequently in poor condition. Patrons report nonfunctioning toilets and urinals, broken stall doors, ripped booth sea