In 2019, Victoria Scott-Miller and her eldest son, Langston, visited a national chain bookstore and struggled to find children’s books by Black creators that featured characters of color. That experience led the Raleigh, N.C. family to spend $200 to buy 113 books by Black authors or Black illustrators to start Liberation Station Bookstore as a pop-up shop specializing in children’s literature that centers on Black children and families. On Juneteenth weekend 2023, Liberation Station Bookstore will open a brick-and-mortar location in downtown Raleigh.
Victoria is an award-winning entrepreneur, documentarian, author, creator of “The Museum Lives in Me” book series and owner of the trailblazing, independent, globally-recognized Liberation Station Bookstore, specializing in children’s literature. In 2021, she was inducted as the youngest and first African American woman into the Wake County Public School Hall of Fame in the category of Entrepreneurship. In 2022, Scott-Miller was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Art to serve as author and creative director for her debut series, “The Museum Lives in Me.” She was the first African American to have such a commission in the museum’s history. Her children’s book is now in every public elementary school and N.C. Cardinal library in the state. Following its success, she signed a multi-book deal to expand her series to museums across the country with Paw Prints Publishing, an imprint of Baker & Taylor. Scott-Miller is represented by Serendipty Literary Agency. She lives in Raleigh, N.C. with her husband, Duane Miller, and two sons, Langston and Emerson.