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.
• The Free Black Women’s Library- Detroit

  The Free Black Women’s Library Detroit is one of the five branches of TFBWL which is self-described broadly as a social art project. Detroit FBWL is a book bike, trading/borrowing library aimed and centering Black women and femme authors. In existence since 2019, this book project and community service hosts pop-up swaps/lending/readings at community events, community spaces, and Metro-Detroit small businesses, in an effort to build radical collaboration, celebrating the brilliance of Black women/femme authors and readers at no costs to the community.