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Today I'm thinking of all the Black & brown grassroots organizers who GOTV to defeat DT--in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in MN/WI/GA, & so many other crucial areas. You gave to America much more than America has given you, & I hope we do better by you ASAP. #BlackLivesMatter 
What are your favorite Black-owned businesses or Black Lives Matter donation platforms? And will you join me in making a post-election $how of $upport to one today?
Here's a list of Black-owned bookstores, including @harriettsbooks and @thelitbar:
https://twitter.com/i/lists/1268045176544604163/members
Here's a list of Black-owned bookstores, including @harriettsbooks and @thelitbar:
https://twitter.com/i/lists/1268045176544604163/members
I'm going to highlight some Black-owned bookstores in cities that helped send Trump packing: Philly, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, & Minneapolis. I hope you'll consider buying some of their books or supporting their fundraisers. #ByeDon2020 #GOTV #BlackWomenLead
Jeannine Cook opened Harriet's Bookshop in Philadelphia in January of 2020.
@harriettsbooks https://www.harriettsbookshop.com/
@harriettsbooks https://www.harriettsbookshop.com/
Read more about the January opening of Harriett's Bookshop: https://tinyurl.com/y52efl8n
About handing out free books about Harriet Tubman & Malcolm X during BLM protests: https://tinyurl.com/y55om4tv
& about reopening in October with an anti-racist sit-in: https://tinyurl.com/y5haw2xm
About handing out free books about Harriet Tubman & Malcolm X during BLM protests: https://tinyurl.com/y55om4tv
& about reopening in October with an anti-racist sit-in: https://tinyurl.com/y5haw2xm
Find books featuring Black women authors, & must-have tee shirts at Harriett's Bookshop.
Browse books here: https://bookshop.org/shop/harriettsbookshop
Find tee-shirts & sweatshirts here: …https://conversationswithharriett.bigcartel.com/
Browse books here: https://bookshop.org/shop/harriettsbookshop
Find tee-shirts & sweatshirts here: …https://conversationswithharriett.bigcartel.com/
Black Garnet Books was born in Minnesota's Twin Cities in the wake of the #GeorgeFloyd protests, spotlighting literature by Black and racially diverse authors.
@blkgarnetbooks
https://www.blackgarnetbooks.com/
@blkgarnetbooks
https://www.blackgarnetbooks.com/
Due to pandemic uncertainty, Black Garnet Books currently operates as an online bookseller plus pop-up locations. Being a bookseller in the 21st Century has been all about being ready to adapt, be flexible, & map out Plans A, B, C, D, E. But especially in 2020.
Black Garnet owner Dionne Sims discovered that there were no Black-owned bookstores in all of Minnesota as of June 2020. Her mission became clear. Fill that gap!
Claudia Rankine said about Black Garnet Books: It "feels like an important activist response to anti-blackness in this country."
Read more about the journey of Ms. Sims and Black Garnet Books!
At the Star-Tribune: https://tinyurl.com/y63jbabs
At MPLS St Paul Mag: https://tinyurl.com/y5foplxu
& at the MSP Business Journal: https://tinyurl.com/yy443ybw
At the Star-Tribune: https://tinyurl.com/y63jbabs
At MPLS St Paul Mag: https://tinyurl.com/y5foplxu
& at the MSP Business Journal: https://tinyurl.com/yy443ybw
Support Black Garnet Books by checking out the shop's book selections online here at BookshopDotOrg: https://bookshop.org/shop/blackgarnetbooks
or direct from the store here: https://www.blackgarnetbooks.com/pop-up-shop
or direct from the store here: https://www.blackgarnetbooks.com/pop-up-shop
Detroit Book City opened in 2017 under the ownership of husband and wife team Reginald and Janeice Haynes.
@DetroitBookCity
https://www.detroitbookcity.com/biography
Read more about the origins of the Metro Detroit bookstore: https://tinyurl.com/y3rvr96h
@DetroitBookCity
https://www.detroitbookcity.com/biography
Read more about the origins of the Metro Detroit bookstore: https://tinyurl.com/y3rvr96h
Detroit Book City features local & independent Black authors. And they host an annual African-American Family Book Expo: https://tinyurl.com/y4h5jmot
Shop books online from Detroit Book City: https://www.shopdetroitbookcity.com/s/shop
Help Detroit Book City get through the pandemic by supporting their GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/detroit-book-city-go-fund-me
Cetonia Weston is the founder of Niche Book Bar, which is currently fundraising towards a brick & mortar space in Milwaukee.
Niche Book Bar:
https://findyournichemke.com/
Niche Book Bar:
https://findyournichemke.com/
Someday soon the Niche Book Bar will become a bookstore for adults & kids, with coffee counter & wine bar. In the meantime, Weston rides a book bike around Milwaukee (!!) with her selection of Black authors, & books with Black characters. I love this!!
Before the book bike, Weston created events to connect readers and authors in Milwaukee, called the Black Authors Pop Up. In preparation for opening a shop, she's been meeting & greeting Milwaukee's Black writers, and founded the Milwaukee-based Black Authors Collective.
Weston has a vision for the Black literature she features: She wants to include a positive picture, as well as sci-fi & fantasy titles, w both adult & child readers in mind: "I'm trying to go for varied literature because we shouldn't just have trauma-based work," she said.
Read more about Niche Book Bar here: https://tinyurl.com/y4769dnq
And here: https://tinyurl.com/y2yoch8o
And here: https://tinyurl.com/y5uszzxl
And here: https://tinyurl.com/y2yoch8o
And here: https://tinyurl.com/y5uszzxl
Browse the online book selection here: https://findyournichemke.com/bookstore/
Support the brick & mortar fundraiser for Niche Book Bar at Kickstarter: https://tinyurl.com/y4y286nc
Source Booksellers in Detroit has been run by Janet Webster Jones since 2002. Before her Cass Avenue shop, she was selling books at vending events, starting in 1989.
@sourcebksellers
http://www.sourcebooksellers.com/
@sourcebksellers
http://www.sourcebooksellers.com/
Jones, pictured here with her daughter, worked for Detroit Public Schools for 42 years before running the bookstore that features non-fiction titles from history & culture to cookbooks to health, spirituality, & well being.
Source Booksellers works hard to engage the nearby community in Midtown Detroit. Among many other events, they host annual "Bookstore Stories" to record the bookstore memories & experiences of their customers. "Their fondest experiences in bookstores - ANY bookstore."
Check out Source Booksellers' main website to follow their virtual event roster & more: http://www.sourcebooksellers.com/
Buy books online direct from their new pandemic-born website here: https://www.sourcebooksellersonline.com/
Buy books online direct from their new pandemic-born website here: https://www.sourcebooksellersonline.com/
Few of a Kind books & gifts has been run by Sarah Martin of the Muslim Women’s Association of Pittsburgh since late 2017.
Few of a Kind:
http://fewofakindstore.com/
Few of a Kind:
http://fewofakindstore.com/
The storefront was added by the Association as a space to empower Muslim women in Pittsburgh, encouraging them to sell their handmade wares & become entrepreneurs. Few of a Kind also encourages empowerment through books as instruments of both faith and education.
Support Pittsburgh's Few of a Kind by browsing the books on their website here: https://few-of-a-kind-store.myshopify.com/collections/books
Or at BookshopDotOrg here: https://bookshop.org/shop/fewofakindstore
Or at BookshopDotOrg here: https://bookshop.org/shop/fewofakindstore
Rosa Duffy opened For Keeps! Books in Atlanta in 2018, specializing in rare & out of print books in Black Studies. Duffy, an Atlanta native, grew the store out of her own book collection & a passed-down interest in Black history & culture.
@forkeepsbooks
https://www.forkeepsbooks.com/collections/books
@forkeepsbooks
https://www.forkeepsbooks.com/collections/books
For Keeps showed up on Auburn Avenue when the neighborhood was in danger of gentrifying. Duffy wanted to remind the block of its historic Black roots.
The storefront is run as both a reading room and a bookshop. A welcoming & calm space (now appointment-only) to pause, hang out, and absorb literature, art, & history.
Read more about For Keeps bookstore at Atlanta Magazine: https://tinyurl.com/y68le69o
At GQ: https://tinyurl.com/yyv2m4cg
& at the Atlanta Journal Constitution: https://tinyurl.com/yypjoz3u
At GQ: https://tinyurl.com/yyv2m4cg
& at the Atlanta Journal Constitution: https://tinyurl.com/yypjoz3u
Shop books via the For Keeps website: https://www.forkeepsbooks.com/
Or contribute to the bookstore's Patreon account for sneak previews of books & exclusive author interviews. https://www.patreon.com/forkeepsbooks
Or contribute to the bookstore's Patreon account for sneak previews of books & exclusive author interviews. https://www.patreon.com/forkeepsbooks
If yr just getting here, the above thread attempts to offer some bookseller spotlites on Black-owned indie bookshops in cities that helped kneecap Trump's reelection chances. Pls consider supporting these bookstores in Philly, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Minneapolis & Detroit
