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The Shades Of Afrika bookstores are located in the cities of Corona and Long Beach, right on the edge of Los Angeles County. This gift shop has African cultural relics, products, herbs, and educational resources at an affordable rate so that their prices are accessible for all. The website is a great source for locating products if you can’t make it to either of their locations. The Afrikan art is just as mesmerizing as their extensive collection of African literature. The owner of Malik Books, Malik Muhammad, opened up his very own bookstore in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. Located in Baldwin Hills specifically, the bookstore has various African Diaspora texts that can be checked out. Malik’s Bookstore has gifts and literature for Black youth because that was his motivation when it came to realizing why he wante
Listen 11 min MORE The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall has been declining for a while, and the coronavirus pandemic accelerated that downward trend. There is zero traffic in the mall now. May 3, 2021. Photo by Amy Ta.
If you walk around the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall these days, especially during the week, you can see that many of its businesses are struggling.
“There is no traffic in this mall. This is not how a mall right now should be looking,” says Malik Muhammad, who has owned and operated Malik’s Books at the Crenshaw Mall since the early 1990s.
Malik Muhammad standing inside his bookstore at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall. He’s been at this location since the early 1990s. Photo by Benjamin Gottlieb.