Libraries Aimed at Marginalized Groups in Michigan

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• The Black Art Library

  The Black Art Library is self-described as a collection of books and other art history ephemera on Black visual art intended to be an educational resource to share within the Black community and beyond. The library navigates through pop-ups and digitally to bring awareness to and highlight the forgotten works and labor of visual cultural workers.
• General Baker Institute Library

  The General Baker Institute Library is a community library and reading space building on the legacy of Detroit labor organizer General Gordon Baker Jr.’s lifelong work. Inspired by Baker’s co-founding of Detroit and Hamtramack’s respective Revolutionary Union Movements (RUMs) movement of the late 1960s, the GBIL is focused on Black labor knowledge centering labor forward and anticapitalist works to increase political education amongst working class Black Detroiters. GBIL is a hidden gem located on Detroit’s Westside in the Pilgrim Village neighborhood.