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Award-Winning Boston Bookstore Is Dedicated To Spotlighting Black And Brown Authors
At Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury, it's about more than the literary works lining the shelves but the community they've served since 2008.
April 14, 2025
A bookstore in Boston's Nubian Square is the only Black-owned bookstore in the city and it's known for embracing literature and the community for almost 20 years.
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At Frugal Bookstore in Roxbury, it's about more than the literary works lining the shelves but the community they've served since 2008.
"I've always been a reader, you know, so the chance to have a bookstore, for one, was big," said co-owner Leonard Egerton. "And then to have a bookstore in the community that I grew up in was huge. To be able to provide children and adults with books with people who look like them, it's big."
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