"Hannah-Jones, a professor at Howard University and co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting who has worked as a staff reporter for The Oregonian, ProPublica, and The New York Times, where she is currently a correspondent, told Brownstoner that, in addition to being a bookstore, bar, and cafe, The North Star Books + Bar will serve as a literary salon designed to be "a draw for great Black writers and creators from across the globe.""
""I'm very plugged into the writer community, I'm friends with a lot of great writers, and wanted to be able to bring those writers into our community," she said. "Whenever you have big book events in the city, they're not at Black bookstores and they're not in Black neighborhoods, so I really wanted to bring that to Bed-Stuy. People should expect all of their writing heroes.""
The North Star Books + Bar will open at 339 Macon Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, occupying the former Macon Hardware building and maintaining Black ownership. The site continues the legacy of one of Bed-Stuy's longest-standing Black-owned businesses and aims to serve the local community. Nikole Hannah-Jones is partnering with Rotimi and Ayo Akinnuoye and DJ Johnson to operate the space. The venue will combine a bookstore, bar, and cafe with a two-story layout and a literary salon focus intended to attract prominent Black writers and host major book events in the neighborhood.
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