After last summer's surge in anti-racist book sales, NPR spoke to three Black bookstore owners across the country to ask if customers are still engaged with their businesses and anti-racist reading.
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Derrick Young, co-owner of Mahogany Books in Washington, D.C., says his store has seen new customers in the last year who seem to be willing to do the work to educate themselves on issues of race in America. Bonnie Jo Mount/Getty Images
On the day George Floyd was murdered Monday, May 25, 2020 there weren t any books exclusively tackling white privilege, anti-Blackness, or policing on the
New York Times Best Sellers list.
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo was the only book to break through the week of May 31, but by June 21, almost 70% of the Times Best Seller list confronted race.
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