A Raleigh Black-owned children\u2019s bookstore plans to reopen
\nafter closing its doors to its downtown location last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will find our place; we will find the place that was designed
\nfor us,\u201d Victoria Scott-Miller told WRAL in 2024. <\/p>\n
A promise kept, and the location is just as central to the story.\n<\/p>\n
Liberation Station plans to reopen in Montague Plaza, a
\n15,000 square foot space in Southeast Raleigh dedicated
\nto\u00a0housing\u00a0Black-owned businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re excited to bring authors and illustrators back to the
\ncity of Raleigh, especially southeast Raleigh,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Scott-Miller and her husband discovered a need in the
\nTriangle for\u00a0kids’\u00a0books featuring children of color.\u00a0The two\u00a0started
\nselling\u00a0books out of their trunk, and then in\u00a0pop-up stores\u00a0before
\nmoving to\u00a0a location in downtown Raleigh.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
However, a year after they started, they say\u00a0they faced \u201cWe had to close not because we failed, we had to close As painful as the closure was, Scott-Miller said she felt it “I’m grateful that we had an opportunity to step back Scott-Miller said their new location will be three times the \u201cBookshelves are a form of protest and liberation and joy,\u201d Liberation Station will reopen on Juneteenth next Scott-Miller said they plan to expand programming to include Scott-Miller said they are fundraising as they are preparing
\nsuch a barrage of racism and threats they decided to close.<\/a>\u00a0The feeling Scott-Miller
\nsaid was devastating. <\/p>\n
\nbecause our nervous systems have been broken,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was such a
\ndisruption of peace that we felt that we could not effectively serve our
\ncommunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nwas necessary because it gave an opportunity to reassess.<\/p>\n
\nand that we had a community that loves us so much that they allowed us to rest,
\nthey allowed us to pause and reimagine what it could look like, um, not only
\nthe bookstore, but then our own personal safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nsize of their original location in downtown Raleigh. She said the space itself
\nfeels like a haven for children to feel seen and represented. <\/p>\n
\nshe said. \u201cSo, the fact that they get to see themselves in our store, on every
\nsingle corner of our store, every shelf is dedicated to the experience of Black
\nchildhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nyear.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nstory times and author workshops with kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nto reopen next June. There is a GoFundMe link<\/a>
\nto help get them going. Community members can also join the Ko-Fi Membership program<\/a>
\nto create long-term sustainability through community-based support. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Raleigh Black-owned children\u2019s bookstore plans to reopen after closing its doors to its downtown location last year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-13192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}