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Help us make our pop-up shop permanent!
Please support our Kickstarter! Althea Young and sisters, April Foxx and Ashley Foxx Davis, are three Black, female business owners in downtown Memphis. We want to diversify the downtown area and become permanent storefronts, but we need your help! We each applied and were approved for the Open on Main Retail Initiative in 2022. The Downtown Memphis Commission’s OPEN ON MAIN Initiative pairs emerging retailers and entrepreneurs with vacant storefronts in Downtown. The program is designed to help retailers test their market-strategies and to create a stronger retail ecosystem and better pedestrian experience in our core city. The spaces available provided us with rent-free opportunities for tenants to temporarily showcase their businesses on Main Street (usually, one month or longer)....
We are closed today for the Easter Holiday!
We will back open on Tuesday, April 11th at 11 am. Join us for Story Time at 11 am. We'll be reading the Runaway Bunny!
Local spotlight by our literacy partner, ALLMemphis
In honor of Black History Month, our literacy partner, ALLMemphis highlighted Black authors whose stories span both borders and generations, illuminating a wide variety of experiences. Read their latest blog post to find out their team’s favorite Black voices and the books that have inspired them, including Kifani Press.
Check it out here:
https://allmemphis.org/blog/celebrating-black-history-month-with-our-favorite-black-authors/