Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More Continue in Browser Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts.Please enter a valid zipcode.SaveRALEIGH, N.C. — One North Carolina entrepreneur is helping inspire other Black business owners.Antonio McBroom is the CEO of the only Black-owned and Black-led multi-unit…
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…
The bookstore moved locations from downtown Raleigh to southeast Raleigh after the owner and children visiting the store were threatened. source
LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE.Source: The Durham / The DurhamA new Black-owned bookstore is setting up shop in Raleigh, aimed at celebrating and highlighting children’s books by Black creators.Victoria Scott-Miller is an award-winning entrepreneur, documentary filmmaker, author and creator of “The Museum Lives in Me” book series.…
RALEIGH (WTVD) — A local man has become the first African-American to own a cultural art gallery in Raleigh.Jason Franklin opened the art gallery along with his daughter, Ashley, who is the Art Director.The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Triangle Cultural Art Gallery on Friday."We're pleased to have the…
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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…