6 Black-Owned Book Publishers
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MadameNoire
Just Us Books
When Wade and Cheryl Hudson started their family in the late 1970s African-American children’s books were few and far between. As their kids grew they decided they could do something to rectify this and collaborated on an alphabet reader. Publishers rejected it. If representatives bought into the idea that black children needed to read books that reflected their experience, they were unwilling to put resources behind it. It took only a few such encounters for the Hudsons to take on the bigger challenge. In 1987 they started Just Us Books which continues to thrive today as the leading provider of black youth literature.
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