By Daniel Johnson, Black Enterprise
JustBookish, an independent bookstore in Boston, is unique for a few reasons, chief among them is who is responsible for opening the bookstore in November 2024 — Boston’s poet laureate Porsha Olayiwola and her business partner, Bing Broderick.
According to The Boston Globe, the other reasons why the bookstore is unique include that in the Dorchester neighborhood it sits in, it is one of the only Black-owned bookstores in Boston and one of the only storefronts that is open in the evenings, making it an attractive working space for the city’s residents.
It is also committed to selling books by writers who are intent on challenging conventional political paradigms.