25 Black-owned bookstores you can support right now

while i don’t claim to be a “book blogger” by any account (more of a cranky publishing-person blogger most days), i know a lot of people have followed me through my book posts, so i’m taking advantage of that captive audience to boost these bookstores. shop them through their own websites and if you’re local, look into curbside pickup to minimize shipping costs and overhead. okay that’s all thanks bye stay safe.

1. the lit bar (a personal favorite and the bronx’s one remaining bookstore)
2. hariett’s bookshop
3. semicolon bookstore
4. mahogany books
5. uncle bobbie’s
6. loyalty bookstore
7. dare books
8. listening tree books
9. underground books
10. multicultural bookstore
11. pyramid books
12. black dot bookstore
13. brain lair books
14. medu bookstore
15. wild fig books and coffee
16. frugal bookstore
17. olive tree books
18. detroit book city
19. cafe con libros
20. revolution books
21. sisters uptown bookstore
22. source booksellers
23. hakim’s bookstore
24. sankofa books and cafe
25. turning page bookshop

Please consider donating to Revolution Books in NYC. It is a communal space with no owner and it took a hit due to COVID. They need $10k by June 21st 2020 in order to continue running

Undercover police officers in new york have been caught using white arms bands / ties on their arms and wrist to signify to officers in uniform that they are not actual protestors, they are all armed

they are using “color a day” tactic, wearing different colors or ties to show other officers that they are cops as well, they are purposefully trying to incite violence within crowds while pretending to be protestors so people can be arrested

Nannies (who also tend to be Black and Caribbean) for the ultra rich in New York are dying of COVID-19 bc their employers refused to let them stay home with pay and that is the reason why I am sharpening the blade of guillotine today.

*new yorker voice* ey! im spiralling here!

*new yorker voice* im fallin apart! badabing badaboom!

and he's very proud of that!