Day 23 of my Support Black Business Month celebration is all about honoring the power of storytelling, literacy, and community spaces! 📚✨ Books educate, empower, and preserve our history. Today, I am shining a light on Black-owned bookstores and remarkable Black authors here in Arizona who are amplifying our voices and enriching our minds.
​Featured Bookstores:
​Grassrootz Bookstore & Juice Bar – Arizona’s ONLY Black and worker-owned bookstore located in Downtown Phoenix.
​Lit Twis’t Mobile Bookstore – Arizona’s first Black woman-owned mobile bookstore dedicated to amplifying Black women's stories.
​Onyx Oasis Bookstore – An Arizona-based online literary marketplace centering BIPOC and QTBIPOC voices.
​Arizona Black Authors Spotlight:
​Dr. Velma Trayham – #1 Bestselling Author (UNFIREABLE) & President/CEO of Black Chamber of Arizona.
​Idris Goodwin – Award-winning playwright, ASU Professor & Author of King of the Neuro Verse.
​Donald Guillory – Author, historian, and ASU instructor (Bastards of the Bayou, Magnolia Lane, The Token Black Guide).
​Patra Sherban-Fox – Founder of The Lit Twis’t & creator of AZ’s first Black woman-owned mobile bookstore.
​How to Support:
​Buy a book from a Black author this week.
​Visit or order online from Grassrootz, Lit Twis’t, or Onyx Oasis.
​Tag your favorite Black-owned bookstore or author in the comments!
​Know your history, read our stories, and support Black literature! 🖤
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