In a heartwarming display of community spirit, residents of Chelsea, Michigan, formed a human chain to help move 9,100 books to a new bookstore location. One book at a time, neighbors came together to support a local business.

Michigan town forms human chain to move 9,100 bookstore books

This next story is about a 37-year-old determined to change lives of people in South Africa’s largest township, Soweto. And how is he doing that? Through books, Thami Mazibuko’s love for reading has forced him to turn his home into book store, library and a literacy centre to serve the people of his community across all generations. WION correspondent Kalden Ongmu has filed this report.

World Of Africa: Soweto's unique house book store

The histories, poems and novels were all there, lining the shelves of one of the best known activist bookstores in the United States. And the talk filling cultural hubs like Busboys and Poets in Washington on Wednesday (April 21) was about the latest chapter in U.S. civil rights: the murder conviction of a white police officer for killing a Black man.

At Black-owned activist bookstore, talk of the next chapter in U.S. civil rights

For book store owners re-opening of stores in the times of the Pandemic holds both promise and peril. Watch report.

Book stores struggle to keep afloat: Finacial fallout of coronavirus crisis

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