NOTES + ANNOTATIONS

You’re Invited: Our 4th Annual Juneteenth + Anniversary Block Party is almost here!

STORE HOURS THIS WEEK

We are officially SEVEN days away from our Block Party! Store hours this week will be a bit different as we prep for Sunday.

Thurs - Sat , Closed // Sunday 12-4 PM

Upcoming events

AUTHOR TALK + SIP

Thur, June 19 @ 6-8P. Join us at Amigoni Urban Winery for a special evening with Essence bestselling romance author + Kansas City native, Monica Garner.

The Block Party

Thx to this year’s Sponsors + Vendors

Sponsors// Andrews McMeel Universal • BlaqOut • KC Generating Income for Tomorrow • Casual Animal Brewing Company

Vendors// AIMwell Yoga, Beautiful Things Publishing House, Blaque+Ninety5, Bougie Arom, Brevsiv Collvge, Celestine Jewels, The Creative Outlet, Edible Delightz by Tee, Embracing Neuro-Diversity, LLC, Evalinesthetics, The Glory Artist/Casha Gloria, HoneyBeApothecary, House of Rena, Kinship Cafe, MCR Ventures LLC/Henna by Mari, Meredith Lucius Illustration/Red Blooms Studios, Moonlit Juicery, Morgan Charleze, Naturecraft Studios, Planned Parenthood, Sage Sol Ceramics, Sparker Kitchen, + Spirit Life Screenprinting + Apparel

Weekly Dosage of Literature

June is important to us for so many reasons!

Check out some of our favorite recommendations:

Get involved

Help Us Cross the Finish Line!

Thanks to our amazing community, we’ve almost hit our sponsorship goal! We’re just $625 away from making this event fully funded.

If you believe in creating intentional spaces to celebrate Black freedom, storytelling, and community—we’d love your support. Every dollar makes a difference.

That’s it for this week.

As we count down the days to the block party, we’re just feeling really grateful—grateful for our interns and their brilliance, for the stories on our shelves, and most of all, for you.

This space, this ecosystem, this moment… none of it happens without your support. Whether you show up by RSVP’ing, grabbing a new read, wearing your BLK + BRWN. tee with pride, or helping us close that final $750 gap—thank you for being part of this journey with us.

Thank you for 4 years of book pushing!

-Cori