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Op-Ed: The enduring legacy of L.A.'s Eso Won Books — uplift and the written word
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEso Won Books co-owner James Fugate speaks with customers in 2020. (Julia Wick/Los Angeles Times) In...
Eso Won, L.A.'s beloved Black-owned bookstore, will be closing its physical shop
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEso Won Books in Leimert Park will close its bricks-and-mortar space at the end of the year. (Dania...
One of the Nation’s Oldest Black-Owned Bookstores is Closing After 40 Years
Black Enterprise via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoEso Won Books, one of the oldest and most popular Black-owned independent bookstores in Los Angeles,...
Popular L.A. bookstore that held signings for Maya Angelou, Muhammad Ali, Spike Lee, is closing its...
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOne of the most beloved Black-owned bookstores in Los Angeles is closing up its brick-and-mortar...
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...
How the authors of 'South Central Noir' captured South L.A. and created a genre
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoContributing writers, by row, from top left: Tananarive Due, Gar Anthony Haywood and Naomi Hirahara;...
For Black Angelenos, recording stokes anger, fears of losing hard-fought gains
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPedestrians are seen in a reflection of Martin Luther King Jr.'s photo in Leimert Park on Tuesday. A...
Column: They wanted to save Leimert Park from gentrification. Here's how they got one block
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAkil West, right, owner of Sole Folks, and Prophet Walker, a developer and co-founder of Treehouse,...
They saved a block of Leimert Park from gentrification. That was just the beginning
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTony Jolly and his wife, Tina Amin, inspect recent renovations at their cafe ORA in Leimert Park....
Candice Carty-Williams on Samantha Irby, 'Citizen,' and the Book That She Read in One Sitting
Elle via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWelcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads....