Victoria Scott-Miller Opens First Black-Owned Children’s Bookstore in North Carolina

Serendipity author Victoria Scott-Miller founded Liberation Station Bookstore with her family as a pop-up shop at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 2019, after struggling to find books for her sons featuring Black characters in other local bookstores. On Juneteenth, the store finally found a permanent brick-and-mortar home in downtown Raleigh, making history as the first Black-owned children’s bookstore in North Carolina. The bookstore is divided into sections that reflect different aspects of the Black diaspora and the African American experience, and the walls are painted with Braille for the blind. Its opening was celebrated by WBUR, Essence, ABC, and Publishers Weekly. Visit the Liberation Station Bookstore website!