Liberation Station, North Carolina’s Only Black-Owned Children’s Bookstore, Has Reopened
We’ve all heard the saying: Reading is fundamental. And for Black children? Reading is not simply fundamental, it is necessary. In a world where they are too often ignored, underappreciated […] The post Liberation Station, North Carolina’s Only Black-Owned Children’s Bookstore, Has Reopened appeared first on Essence.
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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated January 6, 2026 < /> Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… We’ve all heard the saying: Reading is fundamental. And for Black children? Reading is not simply fundamental, it is necessary. In a world where they are too often ignored, underappreciated or misunderstood, Representation matters! Photo by Phillip Loken
ESSENCE: Anything you want to add?SCOTT-MILLER: Liberation Station sits in Raleigh’s Oakwood District—land that carries the full weight of our history. We are literally on former plantation land. That’s not incidental—that’s intentional. Where there was once bondage, there is now liberation.
We’re surrounded by Black-owned businesses that anchor this community, among them are White’s Barbershop, which has owned their property for the last 100 years and has been a Raleigh institution since 1967. This is what love looks like when it refuses to be silent. This is what community looks like when it chooses itself. This is liberation work.
And we’re just getting started.
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