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North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore, called the Liberation Station Bookstore, is closing down its downtown Raleigh location after receiving death threats. According to reports by owner Victoria Scott-Miller, the store will close on April 13. 

Located on the second floor of a brick-and-mortar building on Fayetteville Street, it’s only had a steady location for less than a year. 

The bookstore opened last year on Juneteenth and had very few issues with finances or business. Scott-Miller admitted the only reason they would be moving to close the store was because of the threats. 

After being awarded several grants, she told outlets, “Financially, it was wonderful. But I stand with the fact that we are in the business of children. And whether it is their emotional safety, our emotional safety, their physical safety, or our physical safety, we have a responsibility to make a conscious decision about how we can move forward.”

The entrepreneur explained that the threats the …