{"title":"Book Club Page","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"black-owned-the-revolutionary-life-of-the-black-bookstore","title":"Black-Owned by Char Adams","description":"\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eThe Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eLongtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling, rigorously reported history of Black political movements, told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers of organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003eBlack-Owned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(14, 16, 26); background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"\u003e, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. 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