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The Untold Power of the Black Bookstore

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The film traces the rise, cultural significance, and attempted suppression of Black bookstores across the United States—once vibrant centers of knowledge, political organizing, and community empowerment. Through the voices of former bookstore owners, writers, activists, and patrons, the project explores the Black bookstore ecosystem of readers, authors, publishers, and sellers who built these spaces—alongside those who sought to dismantle them.
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'They Said Niggas Don't Read.......The Untold Power of the Black Bookstore (NDR) is an historical expose of a critical component of Black culture in America, as told through the eyes of a set of social/civil justice oriented and entrepreneurial luminaries from within the Black community, who made it their lives to uplift and educate their people. From the beginning of the Black power era in America, the Black bookstore served a number of purposes, including cultural and intellectual breeding ground for new ideas of empowerment, education and revolution. But it also served as part learning temple and part gathering spot for community while providing a critical link between the present and a time bygone that could contain the seeds for the future. These bookstores were cultural institutions. However, soon it was determined, despite all the admonition from white America of Black people in this country needing to do better on the heels of desegregation and the civil rights movement, that Black bookstores were actually a grave threat to the security of the United States.
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