Black Garnet Books
Bookstore in Minnesota
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| 2023 | Sims confirms that every book in the store is by Black, Indigenous, or other people of color. |
| October 2022 | Black Garnet Books opens its physical location at Hamline Station in the Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul. |
| 2021 | Sims receives a $100,000 Neighborhood STAR grant from Saint Paul City Councilor Mitra Jalali to renovate and open a bookstore location. |
| 2021 | Black Garnet Books operates as a pop-up bookstore. |
| November 2021 | Black Garnet Books launched a book drive on Bookshop.org to donate copies of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story to schools in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area, which ultimately received over 700 donations. |
| July 12 2020 | Crowdfunding campaign raises over $81,000, ultimately reaching a total of more than $108,000. |
| July 10 2020 | Sims launches a crowdfunding campaign for Black Garnet Books on GoFundMe. |
| June 2020 | Dionne Sims discovers no Black-owned bookstores exist in Minnesota while researching ways to support the Black community after George Floyd's murder. |
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