Montague Plaza<\/a>, where the bookstore is slated to reopen in 2026.<\/p>\n\u201cToday was our first community interest meeting, having the opportunity to engage our community, to show them our vision,\u201d said Victoria Scott-Miller, owner of Liberation Station.<\/p>\n
Part of Sunday\u2019s event was to help raise more money for the bookstore. According to Scott-Miller, the bookstore has already raised $30,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve reached $30,000 in 30 days, so we only have $30,000 to go,\u201d Scott-Miller said.<\/p>\n
This Liberation Station, Scott-Miller says, will be different, as Sunday\u2019s meeting was to gauge what southeast Raleigh wants from the new space.<\/p>\n
Montague Plaza is dedicated to housing Black-owned businesses, and the new location will give Liberation Station 15,000 square feet of possibilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat programs do they enjoy, what type of curation of books would they like?\u201d Scott-Miller said.<\/p>\n
Gary Freeman, a Raleigh native with two daughters, said he hopes to bring book reading with other dads to the store.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what she\u2019s doing is amazing,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cBeing able to see that happen on a regular basis to build community, specifically with Black fathers in the area, that\u2019s something I\u2019m really excited about in this.\u201d<\/p>\n
In July, Scott-Miller said they plan to expand programming to include story times and author workshops with kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Making the bookstore\u2019s planned Juneteenth 2026 opening a reality, however, is going to take time, as the bookstore needs to meet its fundraising goals.<\/p>\n
Scott-Miller said she\u2019s looking forward to turning the page and letting her dream sing out once again.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an encouraging turnaround, especially during such a volatile time that people can see the vision and importance in investing children of color education,\u201d Scott-Miller said.<\/p>\n
Scott-Miller told WRAL News she plans to hold another community meeting at the start of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a long journey for Liberation Station. The Black-owned children\u2019s book store in Raleigh closed its downtown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-90951","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\/90951","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=90951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}