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For L.A. bookstores during COVID-19, this holiday season is make or break

For L.A. bookstores during COVID-19, this holiday season is make or break
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Customers wait in line to enter Eso Won Books in Leimert Park on Saturday, Nov. 28. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Two days after Thanksgiving, on what is sometimes known as Small Business Saturday, Jennifer Gracie plopped a stack of hardcovers onto the checkout desk of Chevalier’s Books, a charming shop in Larchmont Village. The haul for Gracie, a 54-year-old transplant from New York, included an Italian cookbook for her husband; a crime novel for her mother; guidebooks for her daughter and friends; and a David Bowie puzzle for her sister-in-law. ....

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Six Months After Black Business Support Surge, L.A.'s Owners Still Reaping the Benefits

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Left: Station 19 star Boris Kodjoe, with son Nico, wearing masks by Gymwrap, a fitness brand the actor founded with wife Nicole Ari Parker. Right: Jungalow’s Justina Blakeney. I’ve been pretty surprised that a lot of the support has been sustained, she says.
While one owner says support Black was just a fad for some amid the summer’s racial justice protests, others report a continued increase in sales.
Following the police killing of George Floyd on May 25 and the subsequent Black Lives Matter uprisings that swept the U.S., there was a nationwide rallying cry to support Black-owned businesses, resulting in a flood of new customers to many. ....

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