![]() ![]() ![]() Owner/Proprietor: Owners: Rodney Daniel and Monique S. Owner/Proprietor: Cheryl Clarke Barbara Balliet &Ģ3 – Book Boutique 260 18th Street Suite 10110 Owner/Proprietor: Kip Johnson and Carlos FranklinĢ2 – Blenheim Hill Books 698 Main Street, Suite A W.Ģ1 – Black Stone Bookstore & Cultural Center 214 W. 10th St.ġ8 – Black Dot Cultural Center 6984 Main St.ġ9 – Black Garnet Books 1319 University Ave. Owner/Proprietor: Skip Richardson, and Gigi Best-Richardsonġ5 – Beyond Barcodes Bookstore 3139 E. Owner/Proprietor: Carla Brown - Chief Operating Officerġ4 – Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum 30-A St. Coffee & Bookstore 1030 Elysian Fields Aveġ3 – Becoming Gods Answer Bookstore 1832 Madison Ave (between 119th and 120th st) 1st Ave., Suite 503Ĩ – Alkebu-Lan Images Bookstore & Gift Shop 2721 Jefferson Streetĩ – All Things Inspiration Giftique 1400 Veterans Memorial Highway SE, Suite 140ġ2 – Baldwin & Co. Owner/Proprietor: Warren, Cheryl, and Allyce LeeĢ – A Better Life Bookstore 869 Derbyshire Roadģ – A Cultural Exchange 12624 Larchmere Blvd.ĥ – African Imports Houston 12300 North Fwy Ste 147 Greenspoint MallĦ – Afriware Books, Co 1701 S. If you reference information from this list, or share it in its entirety, as a courtesy please cite as the source and link back to this page More ▶ View this List by Bookstore Name, Location, or on a Map 150 Bookstore(s) Who Specialize(s) in Black Books 1 – 44th & 3rd Bookseller Entra West End 451 Lee Street SW, Unit B Horning, writing, “If we want to see change, if we want to see more diversity in literature, we have to buy the books.” You can currently shop the featured book selection on the website here.AALBC Founder’s Note: Our list highlights Black-owned bookstores or bookstores that focuses on the work of Black writers. Owned by Lynn Washington, this bookstore sells multi-cultural and Afrocentric books for children, as well as “just enough for teens and adults.” The homepage of the website quotes Kathleen T. Products are available to purchase online, and you can shop for books here. They also sell products for health and wellness that include tea, sea moss, and toothpaste, as well as products for skin and hair, such as soaps, scrubs and oils. At the store on South Street, there are plenty of products that aren’t literature, such as educational DVDs. Black and Nobelīlack and Nobel, owned by Hakim Hopkins, offers a range of book genres that includes education, children’s books, and novels. ![]() To order and find out about their products, contact the store by phone (26), Facebook, or email to purchase books or a gift certificate. The Black Reserve Bookstore, owned by Anwar Muhammad and located in Lansdale, sells a wide variety of merchandise not limited to literature but also clothing, art, jewelry, incense and more. They have online shipping available, and you can order here. As the oldest African-American bookstore in Philadelphia, there is no shortage of history within the pages of the books and biographies and in the store itself. The store is owned by Yvonne Blake, who has run it since the death of her father, Dawud Hakim, in 1997. Hakim’s Bookstoreįor over 59 years, Hakim’s Bookstore & Gift Shop has offered 17 categories of literature from children’s books to philosophy and psychology specializing in African-American history and education. You can shop the collection online here, and you can shop to support the store’s Essentials for Essentials program - which provides books to those working in the emergency room in Philadelphia hospitals - here. Harriett’s also offers their merchandise, from sweaters with names of famed black authors to totes with the store’s logo. Named after abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman, Harriett’s Bookshop, opened by Jeannine Cook earlier this year, carries a collection of books celebrating women authors, artists and activists, including classics from Toni Morrison and newer bestsellers like Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys. The coffeehouse section of the store offers a menu of baked goods and Philly Fair Trade coffee and espresso. The store sells a wide variety of geek goods: apparel, toys, games, books, and comics, many of which focus on black characters. One of the most celebrated comic book shops in the U.S., Amalgam was founded by Ariell Johnson, and opened in 2015. You can shop for books and merchandise online here and donate to their GoFundMe here. The bookstore sells selections from fiction, queer and race studies, cookbooks, and children’s books while the cafe offers sandwiches, vegan snacks, and beverages. They sell a wide variety of light and heavy reading, apparel, merchandise, food and drinks. Uncle Bobbie’s was founded by activist and Temple University professor, Marc Lamont Hill in 2017. ![]()
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