BLACKLIT: Community Rallies $20,000 to Save Local Bookstore
![Nia & Tahj in front of their storefront on opening day.](https://dallasdoinggood.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_8881.jpg)
Nia-Tayler Clark radiated a sense of calm as she sat across from me in BLACKLIT, the bookstore that she founded as a safe space to address the lack of minority representation in literature. One would never assume that she had found the locks changed and an eviction notice on her door just a few days prior.