Black Owned Bookstores & Anti-racist books for children

Let’s keep on raising children that are aware of race, with strong senses of identity, with pride in who they are, and with a spirit of activism and peace!

Thank you to our teacher, Kendall, who compiled this wonderful resource of children’s books for the youngest of children and California black-owned bookstores for us to support.

Black-owned bookstores in California:

Ashay By The Bay 

1411 Webster Street Oakland, CA 

Online bookstore:

https://ashaybythebay.com/

Marcus Books 

3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland, CA 94609

The Multicultural Children’s Bookstore

2325 Hilltop Mall Rd. Richmond, CA 94806

https://www.multiculturalbookstore.com/

Underground Books in Sacramento, CA

Online bookstore:

https://www.sthope.org/underground-books-home

Eso Won Books in Los Angeles, CA

Online bookstore:

https://www.esowonbookstore.com/

Shades of Afrika in Long Beach, CA

Online bookstore:

https://shadesofafrika.com/childrens-books/

Other independent Black-owned bookstores to support!

Nia House

A Montessori Toddler & Preschool Program serving Berkeley since 1974