Walk into a mainstream bookstore, and you’ll likely see books by a handful of well-known Black authors — Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead, and Octavia Butler — highlighted during Black History Month or after an Oprah nod. But head into a Black-owned bookstore, and Black stories aren’t seasonal. They’re everywhere.
These spaces are wall-to-wall Black books, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They’re go-to spots for purchasing work by internationally celebrated Black authors, as well as by writers white people are less familiar with — folks like Eric Jerome Dickey, Sister Soulja, Jawanza Kunjufu, Denene Millner, and Kiara Imani. Fiction, nonfiction, Black perspectives on mental health and healing trauma, or gender inequality, and the effects of systemic racism — you want it, they’ve got it, or they’ll order it for you. Read more at wordinblack.com.
