Liberation Station is North Carolina’s first and only Black-owned children’s bookstore. It reopened last week in Raleigh in a new location after nearly a seven year long journey.
“ Liberation Station … is really a love letter from a black mother to her children that somehow overflowed into the community,” said owner Victoria Scott-Miller. “ The goal is to show that … black is vibrant, black is vast, black is glorious.”
The journey started when she was shopping for books with her two sons, Langston, now 15 who wants to be an author, and Emerson, now 9 who is autistic and was nonverbal at the time, instead finding solace in reading…