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Black Food and Culture Shop
Black Food and Culture Shop Nassau BAH ’Black Food Bookstore & Culture Shop fills a longstanding void in The Bahamas and the community in which we are located by retailing, mainly, books that fo...
Nappy Roots Books
Nappy Roots Books Oklahoma City OK Nappy Roots Books (a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation) is, first and foremost, a bookstore. We carry new & used books for adults and children. Our focus is on books ...
Nefer Bookcafe
Nefer Bookcafe Bronx NY Nefer Bookcafé is a coffee bar and bookstore in The Bronx. They are made up of liberated minds, critical thinkers, highly sensitive, rebellious people committed to nurtu...
Kindred Creatives
Kindred Creatives Lewisville TX “Kindred Creatives ALP is more than a bookstore, we are a creative community space. We offer a community table where classes ranging from poetry, girl’s emp...
RP Books
RP Books Pittsburg CA RP Books is more than a bookstore; we are a community-focused cultural hub operating under Revision Publishing LLC in Old Town Pittsburg, CA. We are proud to carry forward the ri...
The Bottom
The Bottom Knoxville TN The Bottom stands as a multi-use place to foster change and togetherness. As a nonprofit community center and Black-affirming bookshop, The Bottom is building community, celebr...
Cafe con Libros
Cafe con Libros Brooklyn NY Cafe con Libros (coffee with books) is an intersectional Feminist community bookstore and coffee shop. Through our choice of books, programming and great coffee, we endeav...
Black Pearl Books
Black Pearl Books Austin TX Black Pearl Books is an Austin-based indie bookstore promoting--diversity, inclusion, equality, and community—through literature (located inside Ten Thousand Villages...
Community Book Center
Community Book Center New Orleans LA We celebrate Black history every day!
Underground Books
Underground Books Sacramento CA Underground Books, founded in summer 2003 by St. HOPE (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit), anchors the 40 Acres Cultural Center in Oak Park. After the community lost its only libra...
Umoja House Books & Coffee
Umoja House Books & Coffee Philadelphia PA A bookstore that features books and art created by POC with the goal of providing the local community with the opportunity to learn about different cultures....
Word Up: Community Bookshop - Libreria Comunitaria
Word Up: Community Bookshop - Libreria Comunitaria New York NY
Estelita’s Library
Estelita’s Library S Seattle WA “A humble place to share space, community, and knowledge. We are primarily a community Library. We offer drinks & food in addition to our curated library.&rdqu...
Ujamaa Community Bookstore
Ujamaa Community Bookstore Indianapolis IN Named after one of the seven Kwanzaa principles, Ujamaa (meaning “cooperative economics”), we value sharing space, knowledge, and resources. We b...
Zawadi Books
Zawadi Books Buffalo NY Sharon and Kenneth Holley opened Harambee Books and Crafts (renamed Zawadi Books in 2010) around 1976 in Buffalo, NY. Zawadi means “gift” in Swahili, one of the pur...
Black Worldschoolers Mobile Bookstore
Black Worldschoolers Mobile Bookstore Indianapolis IN We exist to provide access and awareness to Black stories worldwide while creating excitement and engagement around reading. Our one-of-a-kind boo...
Black English Bookstore
Black English Bookstore Tampa FL Black English Bookstore is committed to a curated collection of books representing extraordinary voices while elevating a distinct culture and community.
Akoma Coffee & Books
Akoma Coffee & Books Stonecrest GA Akoma Coffee & Books (Inside Privi) is a place to slow down, feel welcomed, and connect. Formerly Black Dot Cultural Center, we’ve carried forward a strong legacy ...
Chez Alpha Books
Chez Alpha Books Cite Africa Dakar, Senegal DKR Chez Alpha Books is an English resource center in Dakar, Senegal that provides the community access to books in English along with an array of programs ...
Onyx
Onyx Covington GA Onyx Bookstore is a Black-owned, woman-owned, unique and relaxing independent bookstore cafe, and supporter of local Black-owned businesses and artists. Serving the community with ex...
Roots Bookstore & Market
Roots Bookstore & Market Miami FL A Black-owned community bookstore in Miami’s Liberty City. They offer new and used books with a focus on banned, Black, and local authors. More than a bookstore, th...
Mocha Books
Mocha Books Tulsa OK Online and local Indie Bookstore highlighting Black and brown voices, characters and stories through literature and community events.
Call & Response Books
Call & Response Books Chicago IL Call & Response is a Black woman-owned bookstore focused on fostering a love of reading, community, human connections, and the sharing of ideas across cultures and bac...
MeJah Books & Crafts
MeJah Books & Crafts Claymont DE MeJah Books has enjoyed the support, growth and success in the community since 1998 when it was founded in Claymont by Emlyn DeGannes and is co-operated by her family:...
Janco Books
Janco Books Las Vegas, Nevada 89102 NV “I want this to be a community hub—a place that’s warm and welcoming…” —Christina Benton, Author and Owner of Janco Books
Azizi Books
Azizi Books Matteson IL Azizi Books is a community based, independent bookstore
Fulton Street Books & Coffee
Fulton Street Books & Coffee Tulsa OK Fulton Street is a space to call home. It is a space to build community and to change our city through civic discourse. It is a space on a mission to increase lit...
Rejoice Christian Books and Gift Shop
Rejoice Christian Books and Gift Shop Snellville GA Rejoice Christian Books and Gift Shop LLC is a small, independent Christian bookstore that provides a soul-nourishing experience for our customers. ...
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of African American History and Culture District of Columbia DC The Museum Shop is located on the first floor. Visitors to the Museum can leave with more than their memories. The NMAAH...
Progressive Emporium and Education Center
Progressive Emporium and Education Center St. Louis MO Existing in various iterations since 1978, Progressive is the oldest continuously operated Black owned bookstore in the metro St. Louis region. S...
Reader’s Block
Reader’s Block Stratford CT Black Woman owned indie bookshop bringing culture to the community through books. Where people come for a cure.
Strive Bookstore
Strive Bookstore Minneapolis MN In the center of downtown Minneapolis with a thriving literary scene, the Strive Bookstore is a community-informed space that celebrates and supports local Black author...
Adanne Bookshop
Adanne Bookshop Brooklyn NY Adanne Bookshop is a Brooklyn-based bookstore celebrating Black and African diaspora literature, art, and culture. We offer a curated selection of books, workshops, and eve...
Lore Bookstore
Lore Bookstore Los Angeles CA Lore aims to be a hub for Black design and art, featuring everything from children’s books to candles and more. Lore is designed to be a gathering space for the c...
Taylor & Co. Books
Taylor & Co. Books Brooklyn NY Taylor & Co. Books is a black-owned, family-run shop for new and used books, comics, and gifts. Not since the venerable Mostly Books closed in the late 90s has Brooklyn'...
Source of Knowledge
Source of Knowledge Newark NJ African-Caribbean family owned bookstore, selling books written and about people of African decent. We carry a huge selection of fiction, nonfiction and children’s ...
L’ouverture Books
L’ouverture Books Pleasantville NJ We are an independent neighborhood and online community bookstore.
Bronx Bound Books
Bronx Bound Books Bronx NY A community bookstore and bookmobile promoting access to book ownership and literacy in the Bronx and beyond.
The Key Bookstore
The Key Bookstore Hartford CT The Key Bookstore is a fully interactive bookstore experience. The Key engages readers through curation, activities, subscriptions, events, events, and community engageme...
Kindred Stories
Kindred Stories Houston TX Kindred Stories is in a culturally thriving historic African American neighborhood in Houston, TX. Their mission is to create a community-centered space committed to celebra...
44th & 3rd Bookseller
44th & 3rd Bookseller Atlanta GA 44th & 3rd Bookseller is a family-owned, multi-cultural book and culture brand headquartered in the heart of Atlanta, GA. Founders, Warren, Cheryl, and Allyce Lee, est...
Kindred Thoughts Book Store
Kindred Thoughts Book Store Bridgeport CT Kindred Thoughts Book Store curates a cultural community connection focused on the Black experience
CLASS Bookstore
CLASS Bookstore Houston TX David & Dara Landry, who both sought to bring together their love for reading and fashion, while filling a void in their community of a Black-owned bookstore.
Resist Booksellers
Resist Booksellers Petersburg VA Resist Booksellers is a black-owned bookstore based in historic Petersburg, VA. We work hard to support readers, dreamers, activists, and book clubs. We inspire thinke...
Shop at MATTER
Shop at MATTER Denver CO An independent, Black-and-woman-owned design consultancy, letterpress workshop, and bookstore serving designers and other thinking persons in community.
That Bookstore In Blytheville
That Bookstore In Blytheville Blytheville AR Mission: “The Literary Hub of the Community” Slogan: “We Are Your Source For Signed, First Edition John Grisham Books.” I'm sorr...
Turning Page Bookshop
Turning Page Bookshop Goose Creek SC Turning Page Bookshop offers a welcoming space for literary and community gatherings, with a carefully curate selection of books suitable for all ages. The shop is...
Word of Life Christian Bookstores
Word of Life Christian Bookstores Los Angeles CA Word of Life Christian Bookstore was started in 1961, by Joe & Evelyn Curtiss. Today, Word of Life is a leading Christian Retailer in the Los Angeles c...
The Little Boho Bookstore
The Little Boho Bookstore Bayonne NJ The Little Boho Bookshop is not your traditional Indie store, it’s a cozy getaway spot to find your happy place. Born with a focus on kids, pre-teens, and yo...
Babycake’s Book Stack
Babycake’s Book Stack St. Paul MN Babycake’s Book Stack is a mobile children’s bookstore (aka bookmobile) that focuses on culture and language with the goal of allowing all children to "...
Parable
Parable Tacoma WA Parable is a community space with a curated selection of plants, new/used books, records, artisans/art, and events.
Scribes and Vibes
Scribes and Vibes Conyers GA Pop-Up Bookshop and Community Arts Project offering an online bookstore with open mic nights, local author events, pop-up art shows, live music, and storytime concerts, pl...
Comma Bookstore & Social Hub
Comma Bookstore & Social Hub Flint MI “Not your average bookstore, we specialize in BIPOC books, art, and products. Established in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. Egypt, who is a Flint ...
Lit Java
Lit Java Pearland TX Using coffee and books to connect the community to ‘LIT’erary experiences!
Multicultural Bookstore Las Vegas
Multicultural Bookstore Las Vegas Las Vegas NV We provide a diverse repertoire of multicultural books of all genres. Besides, we devote ourselves to providing educational and community programs for yo...
Bub’s Bookstore
Bub’s Bookstore Carson City NV We have a simple goal: Provide a community space that is centered around books and other media.
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta)
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta) Atlanta GA The Shrine Cultural Center & Bookstore is a separate component of the church located next door to our sanctuary building. The Shrine of the Black Madon...
AALBC.com’s Black Wall Street Bookstore
AALBC.com’s Black Wall Street Bookstore Tulsa OK Pop-up Bookstore Only Our mission is to share information and celebrate Black culture through books. We also run the Black Wall Street Bookstore.
Black Garnet Books
Black Garnet Books Saint Paul MN A Black, woman-owned bookstore in Minnesota primarily stocking Adult and Young Adult contemporary literature by BIPOC.
Rofhiwa Book Café
Rofhiwa Book Café Durham NC Rofhiwa is a Black-owned independent Bookcafé. Rofhiwa strives to reflect the expansiveness of the black imagination. We value books as repositories for collective knowle...
Umoja Books and Products
Umoja Books and Products Lafayette LA The inspiration of Umoja Books resulted from the need of having an African American owned bookstore in Lafayette, LA. It started with offering books written by Af...
Afrori Books
Afrori Books Brighton BR British bookseller of the year 2023 & 2025. A haven for books by Black authors. Afrori Books, also cohosts the Brighton Book Festival
Round Table Books
Round Table Books Brixton, London LN “Round Table Books is your source for books featuring stories about Black folks and other people of color.”
Zambezi Bazaar
Zambezi Bazaar Los Angeles CA This store has probably closed. Located in Leimert Park on West 43rd Street Boulevard in Los Angeles, is Zambezi Bazaar, a family operated retail store that sells Afri...
The Listening Tree
The Listening Tree Decatur GA The Listening Tree is a children's booktique created to perpetuate literacy and a love of reading in our global community.
LEMS Cultural Center and Bookstore for Life Enrichment
LEMS Cultural Center and Bookstore for Life Enrichment Seattle WA L.E.M.S is more than just a bookstore. It’s a place for the community to connect.
Liberation Station Bookstore
Liberation Station Bookstore Raleigh NC Liberation Station Bookstore is reopening August 24th, 2025 by Liberation Station Bookstore, Organizer We’re 52% Funded—And the Work Continues...
Liberation is Lit
Liberation is Lit Columbia SC Liberation is Lit is a bookstore that aims to spark collective action for liberation and community building among readers and book lovers by promoting stories from inters...
Pages & Volumes
Pages & Volumes Washington DC Pages & Volumes is more than just a bookstore; it’s a vibrant community hub where bookworms of all ages can come together to celebrate their love of literature. From au...
Harambee Books and Artworks
Harambee Books and Artworks Alexandria VA Harambee Books & Artworks, an independent bookstore based in Old Town of Alexandria VA, serves the Washington DC metropolitan area with a wide selection of be...
Birdsong Books
Birdsong Books Locust Grove GA Birdsong Books is a new and used books store specializing in general fiction, self-help, Christian Living, children and other non-fiction books.
Black Wall Street Bookstore
Black Wall Street Bookstore Tulsa OK Powered by AALBC.com, the Black Wall Street Bookstore will operate out of the Greenwood Welcome Center, in the heart of Black Wall Street (corner of Archer Ave.), ...
Left on Read
Left on Read Wichita KS Left on Read is your destination for discovering books by Black authors in the United States. As a Black-owned bookstore located in Wichita, KS, we are dedicated to celebrating...
Black Books Galore, Inc.
Black Books Galore, Inc. Stamford CT Unable to determine if store is still operational as of March 21, 2014.
Black World Books
Black World Books Killeen TX “The Cultural Epicenter of Central Texas”
The Analog Dope Store
The Analog Dope Store Las Vegas NV The Analog Dope Store is a Black woman-owned and operated business. We offer a lovingly curated selection of books and vinyl records centered in Black culture. Our b...
The North Star Books + Bar
The North Star Books + Bar Brooklyn NY At a time when Black stories and histories are under attack, The North Star recalls the elegance and striving of the Harlem Renaissance literary salons, providi...
Akoma Books
Akoma Books Evansville IN We have been educating, empowering, and promoting cultural awareness through our unique selection of books, everyday products, programs, and services. Black literature with...
Cups and Books
Cups and Books New York NY Cups and Books is a black family owned and operated, independent cafe bookstore located in the heart of Brooklyn, NY within (Prospect Lefferts-Gardens).
Books & Stuff
Books & Stuff Philadelphia PA At Books & Stuff we specialize in new, out of print, multicultural books for all ages! Every book costs 50% or more off of the cover price, with limited quantities, there...
Willa’s Books & Vinyl
Willa’s Books & Vinyl Kansas City MO Willa’s Books & Vinyl specializes in used and rare African-American books, first editions, as well as the works of a wide variety of main-stream authors.
Third Eye Books Accessories and Gifts
Third Eye Books Accessories and Gifts Portland OR Third Eye Books Accessories & Gifts LLC was founded in 2019 in Portland Oregon by Michelle Lewis and Charles Hannah. Our vision is to be the number on...
Malik Books (Crenshaw Mall)
Malik Books (Crenshaw Mall) Los Angeles CA Malik Books specializes in American American books, calendars, and gifts full of cultural diversity, positive self reflection, & self awareness.
Aya Coffee + Books
Aya Coffee + Books Kansas City MO Store Not yet opened as of 2020-11-25 Aya Coffee + Books is a place that transforms lives and communities by cultivating culture and connections through beverages + b...
People Get Ready
People Get Ready New Haven CT A place to purchase, trade, talk about, and fall in love with books, especially books for children, youth, and "reluctant" readers and books that might not be as easily f...
Gye Nyame Books & More
Gye Nyame Books & More Louisville KY Gye Nyame Books & More Highlights Books Written by And for the African Diaspora.
Malik Books (Culver City Mall)
Malik Books (Culver City Mall) Culver City CA Malik Books specializes in American American books, calendars, and gifts full of cultural diversity, positive self reflection, & self awareness.
Village Books
Village Books Atlanta GA Village Books is a welcoming independent bookstore offering a thoughtfully curated selection of books and merchandise for book and culture lovers. From bestselling fiction, no...
Pyramid Books
Pyramid Books Boynton Beach FL Pyramid Books specializes in hard-to-find books. They are currently seeking a new location for their physical store.
The Reader’s Choice
The Reader’s Choice Milwaukee WI Wisconsin's only black-owned bookstore closes, leaving memories — and a void http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/07/08/lone-black-owned-bookstore-closes-leavi...
The Black Reserve Bookstore
The Black Reserve Bookstore Lansdale PA Our mission is to give significant access to culture and also history that goes way beyond what we’ve typically learned. With this point in mind, we treat...
Schomburg Center for Research Into Black Culture
Schomburg Center for Research Into Black Culture New York NY Books Located in the Library's Gift Shop
Protagonist Black
Protagonist Black Pomona CA “…an independent bookstore specializing in culturally diverse books and cocktail pairings.”
Ersula’s History Shop
Ersula’s History Shop Tampa FL Black owned, woman owned collection of books by and/or about black people.