Essence Magazine:
By Jasmine Browley ·Updated April 12, 2024
There is an estimated 149 Black-owned bookstores in the US which is just 6% of the 2,500 independently-owned bookstores in the country. One of them was opened by a Black woman in North Carolina. Less than a year later, she says she has to close her doors because of threats.
Liberation Station Bookstore, the first Black-owned children’s bookstore in North Carolina, is closing its location in
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