Source Booksellers Presents Black-Owned with Char Adams

Schedule

Wed Nov 05 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Source Booksellers | Detroit, MI

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About this Event

We welcome the Black-Owned Tour to Detroit. We are delight to have a Detroit feature in this book and it calls out our Black Bookstore Community in Michigan as well.

You can secure a book ticket for this event at this link. The event will take place on Wednesday November 5th at 6:00pm . There will be rich conversation with author Char Adams and Eric B. Vaughn, the son of Ed Vaughn. This books celebrates Vaughn's Bookstore , Detroit's first Black Owned bookstore. In additon, there willl be a Q & A session and a booksigning line. If you have question for Char in advance please add it in ticket or just email [email protected]. The book releases November 4th, picking up your book at the event would secure you a place in the booksigning line at our event.

About the Book:

NBC News reporter Char Adams offers a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements as told through the lens of the Black-owned bookstore, which have been centers for organizing movements from abolition to Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.Black-Owned celebrates the history of Black bookstores and their role as centerpieces of resistance and liberation. Drawn from the author’s in-depth research and reporting, Black-Owned is a story of activism, espionage, violence, and perseverance. Char Adams details Black bookstores’ battles with racist vigilantes, local law enforcement, and federal agents as they fueled Black political movements throughout American history.

About the Author

Char Adams is a reporter for NBC News, and former reporter for People, and her writing on race and identity has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, Oprah Daily, Vice, Teen Vogue, and Bustle. She hosted COVID University New York, one of the first podcasts to chronicle the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City. She is a proud Philadelphia native and now lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Eric B. Vaughn is the owner of Eric's I've Been Framed, Frame shop on Detroit's Westside. He started selling frame in 1994 and has serving Detroit on Livernois for many years.



Char Adams’s comprehensive history of Black bookstores in the U.S. is long overdue. The book is meticulously researched and the stories are engrossing. Grab a cup of tea and learn about David Ruggles’s early 19th century bookstore and stay through the golden age of Black bookselling. What a gift!”—Mariame Kaba, New York Times bestselling author of We Do This ‘Til We Free Us“A deeply researched, beautiful tribute, and a heartfelt history of the sometimes small, but always mighty Black bookshop.”—Evan Friss, New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop


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Source Booksellers, 4240 Cass Avenue, Detroit, United States

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