Black bookstores

Axios -  Just 54 Black-owned bookstores were identified across the U.S a decade ago. Today, a new report counts 306. As public schools and libraries remove books by Black authors — from Beloved to The 1619 Project — Black-owned bookstores are increasingly serving as places where readers can access contested titles and authors' full bodies of work — and gather in community to discuss them....

By the numbers: 90% of the stores report annual revenue under $250,000.  36% operate without a permanent brick-and-mortar location. 14 states have no Black-owned bookstore at all, and sales of books by Black authors declined 14% even as overall print sales slightly rose.

Black-owned bookstores represent about 8% of independent bookstores— even though only 4% of the publishing workforce identifies as Black.