Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of The Black Bookstore with Char Adams
Fri, Nov 21, 2025
5:00 PM–6:00 PM
This virtual event will take place online via Zoom. Free and open to all. Please register to attend online.
Please join us with the Center for the Study of Women in Society for a virtual book talk with author Char Adams (CUNY Graduate Center Women’s and Gender Studies MA alum ’20)! We will be discussing her forthcoming book, Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. A Q&A with the audience will follow.
Char Adams is a former reporter for NBC News and for People. Her writing on race and identity has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Oprah Daily, Vice, Teen Vogue, and Bustle. She is a proud Philadelphia native and now lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Center for Humanities, Women’s Studies Quarterly, CUNY Grad Center Departments: Black, Race, and Ethic Studies, PhD in History, and MA Biography and Memoir.
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