Shop BIPOC: Where You Spend Your Money Matters

Estelita’s Library on Beacon Hill in Seattle is the city’s only Black-owned bookstore and community library/gathering space. “We serve as a beacon for the community to know that they have a space that they can call their own,” says co-owner Edwin Lindo, who along with partner and wife Estell Williams curates the book selection for social-justice-themed and BIPOC-authored titles. It’s also a welcoming gathering place. “You will find books, food and the warmth of meeting someone new and having the conversation your soul has been waiting to have,” says Lindo. “We also have a mobile library that we are looking to paint and build out to take this environment on the road.”

You can visit Estelita’s Library in person or shop its online store. And while you’re shopping, support local Black authors and illustrators, including Ijeoma Oluo, Jeffrey L. Cheatham II and Jessixa Bagley.