Liberation Station, North Carolina’s Only Black-Owned Children’s Bookstore, Has Reopened

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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated January 6, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

We’ve all heard the saying: Reading is fundamental. And for Black children? Reading is not simply fundamental, it is necessary. In a world where they are too often ignored, underappreciated or misunderstood, At Night They Danced, Miss Edmonia’s Class of Wildfires, and The Museum Lives in Me® series). Writing children’s books and running Liberation Station are the

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