Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Pen testing the limits of how

testing the limits of how far they will go—and what they will sacrifice—to win it all

I learned more about myself that year than any other

bearing witness to something

macabre children’s books—and is soon led to a place many believed to be only a legend

the thrilling action of The Wingfeather Saga

Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore by Char Adams Pen testing the limits of howIn Black Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage, violence, community, and perseverance, Black Owned starts with the first Black owned bookstore, which an abolitionist opened in New York in 1834, and after the bookshops violent demise, Black book lovers carried on its cause. In the twentieth century, civil rights and Black Power activists started a Black bookstore boom nationwide.