A Bookstore, a Boutique, a Gallery, a Monument: Harriett's as a Place of Modern Black History Every reader knows what I'd call "the draw of the indie bookshop" -- that feeling they get when they pass an indie's storefront, book covers facing the street, like...
pursh | Oct 30, 2023
From Abolition to Black Lives Matter: Harriett's as a Bookshop, Social Activism Center, and Memorial Walking under the black awning of Harriett's Bookshop in Fishtown, Philadelphia, one might pause to contemplate the machete that slices through the letters. The...
pursh | Oct 5, 2023
On a little swath of street in Fishtown, a Philadelphia neighborhood west of the Delaware River, hangs a black awning with the name "Harriet's Bookshop" in stark white lettering. The letters are cut through with a machete, a symbol of Black women's power to fight...
pursh | Sep 18, 2023