Liberation Station Bookstore, a Black-owned children's bookstore that closed in 2024 due to racist harassment and threats, will reopen next year in Raleigh, N.C., WRAL News reported.
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| Victoria Scott-Miller in the space that will be the new Liberation Station. | |
Owner Victoria Scott-Miller and her husband have found a space within Montague Plaza, a 15,000-square-foot building dedicated to housing Black-owned businesses, and they are aiming for a Juneteenth 2026 reopening. They have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help with the reopening and have already raised more than a third of the $60,000 goal.
"I'm grateful that we had an opportunity to step back," Scott-Miller told WRAL. "And that we had a community that loved us so much they allowed us to rest. They allowed us to pause and reimagine what it could look like, not only the bookstore but our own personal safety. Coming back has been that of a revival, honestly."
Scott-Miller founded Liberation station as an online and pop-up store in 2019 after having difficulty finding children's books for her sons that featured Black characters. She opened a bricks-and-mortar store in 2023, but less than a year later announced that persistent harassment and threats made the store's continued operation untenable.
At the time, Scott-Miller wrote that the closure "certainly won't mark the end of Liberation Station Bookstore. There is so much more work to be done."