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Black-owned Tacoma business receives ‘incredible’ support to address financial worries
Tacoma News Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFamily-owned Tacoma community space, book and plant store Parable has received an outpouring of...
Family-owned Tacoma bookstore marks Black History Month with readings, community events
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 1 year agoFebruary is Black History Month, and some Washingtonians may be looking for books about Black...
Artist constructs Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from pulped Dan Brown books
Press Association News via AOL· 8 months agoBritish artist David Shrigley has said that George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is “really...
21 books by Black authors you should read next
Motherly via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFebruary is Black History Month—a time to celebrate Black motherhood, honor the many ground-breaking Black women like Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who...
Sistah Scifi is behind those book vending machines in Oakland and Seattle
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIndependent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community,...
What Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’ Can Teach Us About Human Behavior
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoScience Fiction writer Octavia Butler poses for a photograph near some of her novels at University...
An Unlikely Leader for a Clothing Retailer Selling to Plus-Size, Moderate-Income Black Women
Motley Fool via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoIn this podcast, Motley Fool host Mary Long caught up with James Rhee, the former CEO of plus-size...
How Octavia Butler inspired a pathbreaking Black-owned Pasadena bookstore
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNikki High is taking a big leap with Octavia's Bookshelf in Pasadena. She's had her moments of...
She quit her job to open her town’s only bookstore focused on BIPOC-authors. Hundreds showed up to...
TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPasadena, California, resident Nikki High was only a teenager when she first picked up a copy of...
2023 in books: Protests, bannings and the rise of AI helped shape the story of publishing
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoBook publishing in 2023 was a story of cooling sales and rising conflict, marked by legal action,...