About HBCU Legacy Project and Black English Bookstore

BLACK ENGLISH BOOKSTORE

Black English Bookstore is a women-owned and independently operated bookshop that caters to readers of all ages while elevating black-authored books. Our mission is to promote the reading culture. We foster curiosity, gift young readers books through sponsorship, highlight HBCU alumni authors, and proudly liberate banned books.

• Founder Gwendolyn Henderson is committed to restoring a black-owned bookstore to the inner city of Tampa. By carefully curating reading options representing extraordinary voices, she has elevated a distinct culture and community, while adding Tampa to the 6% of independent bookstores owned by blacks in America.
• A bookstore that primarily sells books written by writers who pen a language, from plain to proper, that can be identified and classified as Black English by its patrons, friends, neighbors, and the curious.
• Black English Bookstore will serve as a gathering place for people from all walks of life who enjoy congregating in cozy spaces while actively contributing to the literary ethos. Our bookstore is an affiliate of Bookshop and earns commissions on all online orders and audio books from Libro.fm. We offer a warm, cozy, coffee-scented, candle-burning setting in our historic Tampa Heights store. Our space also houses real plants!
• Bookshop Link:  Bookshop  
• Audiobook Link:  Libro.fm

The HBCU Legacy Project LLC

is inspired by the gift of undeniable love of all classified Historically 

Black Colleges and Universities held in the head and heart of the graduates.  

This company will focus on three tenets:  

The Future of HBCUs, The Families of HBCUs, The Friends HBCUs.

You can go to school anyplace, but no school will love you, and teach you to

 love yourself and know yourself like Hillman.  ~Whitley Gilbert

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

~Vitor Belfort