Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore

Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore**A November LibraryReads Pick** Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. In Black Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage, violence,

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