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A popular festival returned to downtown Raleigh Saturday – the African American Cultural Festival.Entertainment, artists and vendors stretched down Fayetteville Street. It comes at an important time for Black-owned businesses making a comeback from the worst of the pandemic. Overa Reid, a vendor selling shirts with names of historically Black colleges and other designs printed…
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) — ECU senior Kenny Roach started Colorful Desires to promote minority-owned businesses around the campus in Greenville. Now, Roach is planning to expand to other campus communities, such as NCCU and NC State University.Roach gets the word out through his website and social media."Starting out, I wanted to hit these colleges businesses,…
LightDarkLightDarkLightDarkby BOTWC StaffAugust 12, 2025Liberation Station, North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore, is set to reopen on Juneteenth 2026 after closing its downtown Raleigh location last year, WRAL News reports. In a time when books that share Black history and stories are being banned and silenced, this reopening feels like a powerful act of resistance…
North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore, called the Liberation Station Bookstore, is closing down its downtown Raleigh location after receiving death threats. According to reports by owner Victoria Scott-Miller, the store will close on April 13. Located on the second floor of a brick-and-mortar building on Fayetteville Street, it’s only had a steady location for less…
Subscribe to newsletter Updated August 11, 2025Liberation Station, the first Black-owned children’s bookstore in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, will be returning to a brick-and-mortar location in 2026.According to WRAL News, owners Victoria Scott-Miller and her husband were forced to close their bookstore. Now, the couple is coming back stronger than ever in a new space at Montague Plaza, a 15,000-square-foot…
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