Catch up quick: Victoria Scott-Miller and her family were inspired to start their own bookstore after Scott-Miller and her oldest son spent nearly five hours at a major chain bookstore hunting for uplifting books featuring characters of color. They walked away with just five.
That experience inspired Scott-Miller, alongside her husband Duane Miller and two sons, Langston and Emerson, to open a pop-up bookstore out of the trunk of their car to sell books their sons could see themselves in.
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The big picture: Liberation Station joins a growing cohort of Black-owned businesses near the historic Black Main Street, once a thriving hub of Black businesses near the intersection of Salisbury Street and Hargett Street.
Nearby Black-owned stores include clothing boutique Nashone and Black Friday Market.
“This is our love letter to the city of Raleigh,” Scott-Miller said in a release.