First Black-Owned Bookstore In A Decade Opens In Las Vegas

by Mary Spiller

November 12, 2023

Multicultural Books Las Vegas has quite a lot of totally different ebook genres to supply to patrons.

On Nov. 5, the primary Black-owned bookstore in over a whole decade opened up in Sin Metropolis. Tamara Shiloh lastly opened the doorways for her personal bookshop referred to as Multicultural Books Las Vegas.

In response to KSNV 3, the Nevada-based retailer positioned within the historic Westside Kingdom Plaza made its debut as a brick-and-mortar retailer the place patrons can stroll round and browse all kinds of books. 

That is the second retailer that Shiloh has opened underneath the identical Multicultural Books model, with the primary being in Richmond, California — offering its wealthy and expansive Black neighborhood with good reads. 

Shiloh partnered with co-owner Carol Santiago, who has the identical mission as her to proceed to foster an inclusive and academic house that’s enriching for communities of all totally different sorts. Shiloh emphasised that her bookstore has one thing that units it aside out of your ordinary buying hub, and that’s a totally secure and inclusive house. 

She mentioned, “There’s no comparability. Our bookstore, we would like it to be a secure house for folks to come back, sit down and benefit from the books. I assume what units us aside is most of our books are face-forward in order that when kids stroll in, they see themselves, and so they notice there are books written about them as nicely.”

She expressed to the information station that they’ve a wide array of genres and studying ranges so that everybody can discover one thing for them. They’ve novels on the market, image books, and chapter books for all kinds of ages to take pleasure in. The web site bolsters books representing “cultures together with African American, Latino, Native American, Asian, South Asian, Center Jap and Filipino.”

Not solely do they exhibit totally different cultures, however in addition they have themes that debate “LGBTQ, incapacity, variety, social justice, STEM, Black historical past, African historical past, and Graphic Novels.”

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