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👏🏿📚#ArtIsAWeapon #TheBronx now has a bookstore - @thelitbar opens today in my #MottHaven 'hood! Congratulations to owner @1st.noelle #NoëlleSantos for chasing her dream, making it come true, and doing it in our community! First image 🎨 "Cheyenne" by #Bronx 👨🏿‍🎨 @andre_trenier ________________________ Reposted from @1st.noelle: Happy National Independent Bookstore Day, bookboos! 📚👻 I am Noëlle Santos–a regular, degular, shmegular girl from the Bronx (Soundview stand up! 🙅🏽‍♀️) who was called to bring a general-interest bookshop back to our borough of over 1.5 million people. Armed with Wi-Fi, determination, and generous support from around the world, I crusaded for over four years to bring my vision for our LITerary hub to life. We did that! And it's with tremendous honor that I open the doors of @thelitbar to the public permanently. If you aren't able to make it to our #instaGRANDopeningtoday (ribbon cutting today 4.27 at 12 pm ✂️), or if you have the time to bookshop-hop, it would mean the world to the world if you made it rain on your local indie bookstore wherever you are. It's a lituation at independent bookstores all over the country today as we celebrate the most noble of retail–your book pharmacists, school partners, event hosts, community living rooms, your underground author A&R–the fabric of our neighborhoods. Every hood deserves one and now a tree grows in the Bronx. Sincerely yerrrs, @1st.noelle" ________________ Noelle's @Indiegogo campaign "Let's Bring A Goddamn Bookstore to the Bronx" was one of the most compelling and (clearly) successful crowdsourcing efforts I've ever seen/supported! Read her recent profile in the @nytimes: www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/nyregion/bronx-bookstore.html #thelitbar #NoëlleSantos #instaGRANDOPENING #indiebookstoreday #bookstoreandchill #thebronxreads #thebronx #AfroLatina #bookstagram #indiebookstore #southbronx #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/BwwvM5MFiYo/?igshid=c12bo7im3nf3

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👏🍾📚 @1st.noelle is one step closer to opening @thelitbar in our beloved Bronx borough! Well done Noelle Santos and all the funders who believe in your vision! #NoëlleSantos #AfroLatina #TheLitBar #TheBronx #BoogieDownStandUp #BronxBookstore #literacy #TheBX #BlackBrilliance #BlackHistory365 #communityengagement #BlackBookworm #ArtIsAWeapon (at The Boogie Down, Bronx)