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| Victoria Scott-Miller | |
Liberation Station, a Black-owned children's bookstore that debuted as a pop-up in 2019, will soon open a bricks-and-mortar location in downtown Raleigh, N.C., Axios reported.
Owner Victoria Scott-Miller has found a storefront at 208 Fayetteville St. and plans to open on June 17, which will be the same day as Raleigh's Juneteenth celebration. The bookstore will join a "growing cohort of Black-owned businesses in the area," and in addition to diverse children's books will feature banned titles like Toni Morrison's Beloved and James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain.
Scott-Miller has also launched a crowdfunding campaign with the Bulls of Durham; money raised through the campaign will go toward buying bookshelves and other fixtures, a reception desk and seating, as well as murals and design work.
She told Axios she was inspired to open a bookstore after she and her husband had difficulty finding books for their sons that featured characters of color. "We knew it was something fulfilling for our children but we did not realize the impact seeing books not based on trauma narratives but hope--like that I could be a scientist--would have on other children."