A Lansing woman says she’s filling a missing piece that’s needed in the Lansing Community, and that’s a bookstore full of African-American writers.
Nyshell Lawrence is the owner of Socialight Society Bookshop. A trip to a bookstore in 2017 sparked her new idea, and in the middle of a pandemic, she brought that idea.
Just 4 years ago Lawrence noticed something was missing in Lansing.
“My husband took me on a date to a local bookstore and when I saw the section that was dedicated to women of color, it was so small. I felt really disappointed, I felt unseen and uncelebrated,” said Lawrence, owner in Socialight Society Bookshop.
She says she didn’t want anyone else to feel the way she felt.
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