"Children are their imaginations, their hopes and their dreams," Zsamé Morgan of Babycake's Book Stack mobile bookstore in St. Paul, Minn., recently told PW. "I get to provide books for children to be able to grow those imaginations so that they aren't going to be held back by anyone's idea of who they are because of their skin color or because of their socio-economic situation."
Like other Black booksellers across the country, Morgan was both personally and professionally affected by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. While adults were buying books for themselves to better understand race and racism in the U.S., there was, for Morgan and her online bookstore, a "beautiful growth of child-focused organizations that wanted to diversify their bookshelves" and reached out to Babycake's.
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