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Black English Bookstore

Tampa, FL

Black-Owned Woman-Owned

Black English Bookstore is a Black women-owned bookstore, online and in the heart of Historic Tampa Heights, launched to amplify voices and pay tribute to the ancestors who were unable to read and write. One of them is Sam Hightower (1860-1932) my great great grandfather. With this purpose and bookish joy, Black English Bookstore (BEB) was born and I am her shopkeeper.

"If Black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is?" James Baldwin

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Mrs. Wiggins by Mary Monroe

The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips

Finding Me by Viola Davis

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

Some Nerve by Patty Chang Anker

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

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