BLACK-OWNED

NBC News reporter Char Adams offers a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements as told through the lens of the Black-owned bookstore, which have been centers for organizing movements from abolition to Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.

BLACK-OWNED celebrates the history of Black bookstores and their role as centerpieces of resistance and liberation. Drawn from the author's in-depth research and reporting, BLACK-OWNED is a story of activism, espionage, violence, and perseverance, spanning nearly 200 years. Populated by vibrant characters, and written with cinematic flair, BLACK-OWNED will be an enlightening story of community, resistance, and joy. Char Adams is a reporter for NBC News, and former reporter for People, and her writing on race and identity has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, Oprah Daily, Vice, Teen Vogue, and Bustle. She hosted COVID University New York, one of the first podcasts to chronicle the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City. She is a proud Philadelphia native and now lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.