News & Press
2024
2023
WUSF Public Media | Disney's live action 'Little Mermaid' makes a splash with young Black girls in St. Petersburg
10 Tampa Bay | Cultured Books: Tampa Bay area woman connects children to Black authors
The Weekly Challenger | Local literacy advocates bring Black Children’s Book Week to library
Green Bench Monthly | People of St. Pete: Lorielle Hollaway
2022
Creative Pinellas | A Lit Fest for Kids Makes its Debut
Creative Pinellas | A Lit Fest for Kids Makes its Debut
Creative Pinellas | Helping Your Kids Learn to Love Reading
Bay News 9 | Justice For All Family Literacy Month Event tackles achievement gaps
Tampa Bay Times | St. Pete Reads! Lit Fest is Saturday. Here’s what to know.
Creative Pinellas | Celebrating the #LiteracyLifestyle
2021
Catalyst : THRIVE | Cultured Books takes $15,000 grand prize at SVP Fast Pitch competition
‘Burg Life | Bringing Change Through Books
Good Morning America | How 1 bookstore helps kids develop better reading skills
i love the burg | Cultured Books begins filming Reading Rainbow-inspired series “Read About It” in St. Pete
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay | Independent Bookstore Day happens this Saturday in Tampa Bay
Creative Pinellas | The Book Pusher Changing Kids’ Lives,
One Book at a Time
The Gabber | What We’re Reading: Black History
Tampa Bay Times | At St. Petersburg MLK Expo, kids and vendors cultivate their dreams
2020
Catalyst : THE HUSTLE | LORIELLE J. HOLLAWAY (CULTURED BOOKS)
Tampa Bay Times | St. Petersburg’s Cultured Books makes literacy-based show for youth
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay | St. Pete's Cultured Books launches literacy-minded ‘Reading Rainbow’ style web series
The Harvard Crimson | No, You Don’t Need To #SaveTheStrand
Tampa Bay Times | At St. Pete’s Cultured Books, black children’s stories are about more than struggle
St. Pete Catalyst | Cultured Books is changing the narrative for children in South St. Pete and beyond
i love the burg | Cultured Books launches fundraiser for the Book Report Project
WTSP 10 Tampa Bay | St. Pete children's bookstore says kid's book report will pay for books
The Gabber | Book Report Project Keeps Kids Reading
Pure Wow | 8 Black-Owned Bookstores to Support Right Now (and Always)
MPR News | A bookseller recommends 'I Am Every Good Thing' for back to school
The Weekly Challenger | Master Barber Antonio Brown’s ‘Barbershop Book Club’ expands
Publishers Weekly | Black-Owned Bookstores to Support Now
St. Pete Catalyst | Here’s who took the top spot at St. Pete Pitch Night
WTSP 10 Tampa Bay | How to talk to your kids about racism and the protests for George Floyd across Tampa Bay
POPSUGAR. | Stock Up on Books From These Black-Owned Bookshops Across the US
Book Riot | 50 BLACK-OWNED INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES YOU CAN SUPPORT TODAY
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | The summer reads Black bookstore owners are recommending
Good Housekeeping | 80+ Black-Owned Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
Entertainment Weekly | 47 black-owned bookstores across the country that you can support
Glazer Museum | Juneteenth Storytime With Cultured Books
The Weekly Challenger | Promote Anti-Racism St. Pete: An organization that wants to turn allies into accomplices
Bustle | 27 Black-Owned Bookstores To Support Today & Always
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay | Best of the Bay 2020 Goods & Services
WUSF Public Media | 'It's Hard To Have These Conversations,' A Black Mom Talks To Her Kids About Race and Civil Unrest
Inc. Magazine | The Covid Quarantine Is Fueling a Boom in New Online Ventures
ABC Action News Tampa Bay | Word Book Box in St. Pete encourages children to read, open their imagination
2019
Travel Noire | 50 In 50: Black-Owned Bookstores Across America
VoyageMIA | Meet Lorielle J. Hollaway
2018
WEDU Arts Plus | 727: Cultured Books
The Weekly Challenger | Life on Deuces back when
The Crows Nest | Localtopia sheds light on local companies
2017
Publishers Weekly | The Next Wave of Children’s Bookstores
American Booksellers Association | Florida’s Cultured Books Takes First Steps Toward Opening