About this Event
The Free Black Women's Library
celebrates the release of
BLACK OWNED/The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
with its author Char Adams
Thursday, Nov 6 at 7PM
All are welcome to join us for an author chat and book signing session in honor of the awesome new book written by longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams. In it she shares 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, community, and perseverance, Black-Owned starts with the first Black-owned bookstore, which an abolitionist opened in New York in 1834, and after the bookshop’s violent demise, Black book-lovers carried on its cause. In the twentieth century, civil rights and Black Power activists started a Black bookstore boom nationwide. Malcolm X gave speeches in front of the National Memorial African Book Store in Harlem—a place dubbed “Speakers’ Corner”—and later, Black bookstores became targets of FBI agents, police, and racist vigilantes. Still, stores continued to fuel Black political movements.
Books will be available for purchase via Glady's Books
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Free Black Women's Library Reading Room, 226 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn, United States
USD 0.00
