Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter, and we are celebrating reading. We are

celebrating writers. We are celebrating storytellers. Up next is an interview with Char Adams. Char Adams has a new book. It is called

Black Owned. It is a book about the revolutionary life of black bookstores. It's amazing. I will also

let y'all know. I love that this woman wrote this book and I also love that she's out doing a book

tour. She has a speech impediment. She stutters.

And that has not stopped her from getting out here and talking about these things. I love that.

There should be no impediments to what we need to get done in this time. And she's got a story to

tell. So y'all going to listen to it. Up next my interview with Sharre Adams, Black-owned is the book. You know I'm obsessed with us

knowing things. We have to get our critical thinking muscle, which is our brain on ashy.

We got to moisturize it. We got to get it going. Yes. And part of that is spending time in

bookstores and reading and reading and reading and reading and right now I'm

excited to talk with the journalist author of Black owned the revolutionary life of the black

bookstore let me welcome the one and only Shar Adams hey thank you Thank you so much. Hi.

Hey.

Um, you know, growing up, I lived in East Orange, well, I'm from East Orange.

And we had a bookstore in Orange because East Orange and then West, like, they're all connected called Tunday Dada.

And I would spend just about every week in Tunday Dada.

It was black-owned.

It was on the corner on Main Street.

And it was African art and print and books,

B.B. Moore Campbell and all.

I mean, it was just, it was an experience.

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