August 04, 2026

From @Troy

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK BOOKSTORES OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES TO CHAMPION BLACK LITERARY CULTURE

Sacramento, CA (August 4, 2025) — Inspired by the legacy of the country's first Black-owned bookstores and the remarkable individuals behind them, the official launch of the National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2) took place today. As a first-of-its-kind national organization, NAB2 has been built to unify, elevate, and empower Black-owned bookstores across the country.

NAB2 is a nonprofit collective created to promote literacy, amplify Black voices, and preserve Black culture by increasing the visibility, sustainability, and impact of Black bookstores and booksellers. The organization represents a powerful step toward creating long-term infrastructure and collective advocacy for one of the most vital cultural cornerstones of Black America.

“For decades Black bookstores have been the connective tissue in communities across the nation. Many of us have talked for years about the power of collective action and now, with the founding of NAB2 we have the ability to institutionalize policies and practices that will allow for the further growth and flourishing of these important institutions”— Blanche Richardson, Founding Board Member and Owner, Marcus Books

The organization’s inaugural board includes trailblazers from some of the country’s most historic and impactful Black bookstores. Many of these are now being led by third, fourth and fifth generation family member bookstore owners including Marshall’s Music and Books (Jackson, MS), Hakim’s Bookstore (Philadelphia, PA), Marcus Books (Oakland, CA), and Source Booksellers (Detroit, MI). NAB2’s multi-tiered membership model invites bookstore owners, professional booksellers, and at-large industry allies, authors, publishers, and distributors, to join in shaping a national agenda rooted in equity, culture, and commerce.

“My mother, Mother Rose, founded and ran Underground Books in Oak Park. My involvement in the National Association of Black Bookstores is deeply personal. It’s a way for me to honor her legacy and ensure that the stories, voices, and spaces she cherished continue to thrive,” said Kevin Johnson, Founder, National Association of Black Bookstores.

The core priorities of the organization are as follows:
 
Elevating the Black bookstore community by offering professional resources, increased visibility, and a strong network of support; Expanding representation in the bookselling industry by supporting long-term financial sustainability and growth; Leveraging economies of scale to benefit both current and future Black bookstores and booksellers; Serving as a collective voice for Black bookstores through advocacy and public engagement; Educating the public about the rich history and enduring legacy of Black bookstores in America.
Structured with a full board of directors, advisory board, and general membership body, NAB2 plans to convene virtually and in person throughout the year, with key events slated during Black Lit Weekend in New York (August 15–16) and the Sacramento Black Book Fair (September 12–13).

For more information, to become a member, or to support NAB2, visit www.nab2.org or follow @nab2blk on social platforms.

About the National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2)

The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2) is the first and only national organization dedicated to empowering Black-owned bookstores and booksellers. Founded in 2025, NAB2 exists to promote literacy, amplify Black voices, and preserve Black cultural heritage by strengthening the visibility, sustainability, and impact of Black bookstores across the United States. Through advocacy, education, strategic partnerships, and a unified membership network, NAB2 supports Black literary spaces as engines of community, commerce, and cultural change. Learn more at www.nab2.org and follow @nab2blk on social platforms.

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The USA has reached two hundred and fifty years.
Starting off as a fiscal capitalistic country with tons of financial imbalances, regardless that they were legal. .
Now a populace, getting larger and larger, within the usa seems to want the usa to become what it was never, a place for all in it to be content.
We will see, but I will end with what I always do for all governments anywhere or anytime in humanity.
their most negative times are always built in the times suggested as positive or acceptible, their gilded ages, their glorious or advertised wins is usually the times where the seeds of the worst times were laid.

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The titular question is , why are non rich americans against socialism?

The questions are clear
G)What do people in the USA consider socialism?
E)What variations of opinion do people in the usa have in defining socialism?
M)What percentage of people, whether citizens or not, whether americans or not, in the united states of america are opposed to socialism?
K)What aspect of the USA implements socialism?

Before anyone can answer the question " why are non rich americans against socialism" ,
G) what do people in the usa consider socialism. New York City has a socialist party, which isn't the democratic socialist party. NYC also has a libertarian party and green party and others. But what is socialism? I bet socialism is different for the socialist party in comparison to the democratic socialist party. My point? I am unconvinced that socialism has a majority accepted definition. And absent said majority accepted definition, any question on the populace of three hundred and fifty million plus in the united states of america opinion on said idea goes into automatic argument. Cause the point of the titular question is a matter of opinion from majority consensus, not the opinion of individuals.
E) and what is socialism. Some people think socialism is a system with an absence of fiscal capitalism. Some Don't.
M) With so many variations of definition to socialism, who is opposed to socialism? can it be calculated? can it be known? or is it an assumption?
K) Lastly, where is socialism already implemented? Some will say the entire welfare programs in the usa are socialism. In Nippon/Japan they are stated as such, but people don't always view welfare programs as socialsim in the united states of america. so...

Is the issuse of the democratic socialist creating a wedge in the party of andrew jackson OR are multividing lines simply being treated with their proper presence. One of the prblems in many human organizations is the falsehood of unity, the asusmption of a collective united behind something when it is a group of various tribes or sects who exist through a loose arrangement that isn't strong enough to handle all the groups sway. It can be similarly noted that the reforms or libertarians in the party of abraham lincoln are a similarity to the democratic socialst plus greens in the party of andrew jackson. The falsehood is the structure of the two party system as adequate for all the parts that the two parties try to umbrella . The usa does have a history of parties of governance splitting/dying/merging/mutating so it is clear that the democratic socialsts and the fdrr corporate members of the party of andrew jackson can't survive together forever, int he same way the Maga and the reagan corporate members of the party of abraham lincoln can't survive together.

I think the donkeys fdr wing feels, government can be an avenue for fiscal capitalism, not a tool for socialism living side by side with ffiscal capitalistic private sector.

The reason no universal affordable healthcare , or universal affordable housing or universal childcare has happened is lobbies, not any party of governance

The problem in the usa has always been the faithful or hopeful financial assessments. Those in the usa who feel a middle always exist or that the usa can change into something are the people who have always pushed the usa along. mno matter the race: phenotype/gender/religion/language/geographic descendency /or other.
But the questions are clear.
Can the usa be an engine for fiscal capitalism while fund socialism? The USA has never financially been able to provide for all who live in it. NEVER.
circa 1492 native american peoples, were blockaded or murdered from the fiscal capitalistic environment by whites for whites fiscal betterment.
early 1500s, black people were enslaved to whites , so the usa wasn't a place for black positive living.
1865 was the end of the war between the states. The UTZ indigenous peoples were murdered by the federal government from nineteen hundred to ninteen hundred and three. The civil rights act whose biggest beneficiary were women was signed in nineteen hundred and sixty five. The USA went to a fiat currency, not backed by gold in the nineteen hundred and seventies to handle future financial wobbles based on their military power or calculative ability.
The United states of america has never financially supported ALL the humans in it. NEVER. So how can in the year two thousand and twenty six it change to do so? five hundred years of genocide or enslavement or abuse can not be undone in decades. If it can? we will see. But it is clear that abet against the usa is wisest.

The idea that fiscally wealthy people should take less in a country founded by ENSLAVERS is a historical insult. but ford vs dodge prove that it is illegal in the usa to go against profiteering.
The hopeful or faithful in the usa, after its two hundred and fifty year anniversary are tasked with the challenging of having hope when the myths or legends the usa has professed, from its very infancy, have to be called in, and no cards can even be placed on the table.

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