"People ask me, 'What is the Black bookstore's response to these attacks on DEI and diverse books?' The Black-owned bookstore is the response. Black-owned bookstores aren't really impacted by book bans because they've always sold radical, dissident books, right? So it's not a question of what should they be doing now in this climate; their very existence pushes back on all of these attacks we're seeing."
--Char Adams, author of Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore (Tiny Reparations Books), a Summer/Fall 2025 Indies Introduce adult selection, in a q&a with Bookselling This Week