Bookstore owner seeks to provide truth, accurate Black history
Willa s Books & Vinyl aims to educate on Black authors, race and politics.
and last updated 2021-02-11 08:00:41-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â When Willa Robinson first opened her bookstore, she said it was a new way to channel her hobby of book collecting, but more than 10 years later, it s now the only Black-owned brick-and-mortar bookstore in Kansas City. I had books all over the house and my husband said, We ve got to do something, so I decided I was going to sell, Robinson said.
Willa s Books and Vinyl is packed with hundreds of books, magazines and records from wall-to-wall and ceiling to floor. Readers can find everything from 30-year-old Ebony Magazines to A Promised Land, a memoir by former president Barack Obama.