The owner of North Carolina’s first Black-owned children’s bookstore, Liberation Station, will appear on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” on Thursday.
Victoria Scott-Miller will appear on the show, which airs at 11 a.m. on FOX 50.
Scott-Miller first opened Liberation Station in June 2023 in downtown Raleigh. For her, the business simply started as an idea that was rooted in her children, which she said grew into a mission to share wholeness with the community.
Scott-Miller said she was inspired by her two sons, Langston, 15, and Emerson, 9.
When her youngest son was diagnosed with autism, Scott-Miller left her job as a third-grade teacher to focus on his learning, teaching him how to speak through books. Her older son aspired to be a writer, and after a frustrating search for books featuring Black protagonists,
“The first psychological wound I think a child experiences, a child of color specifically, is going into a bookstore, going into a school library, and seeing that their existence is optional, that it’s not readily accessible on the shelf, that it’s not celebrated,” Scott-Miller said.
She said Liberation Station is aimed at healing that wound and reframing the idea of what could be.
“You can have a space specifically carved out for you, for you to go in, and it is calm, it is safe, it is anchored in community, and every single book that is available is for you,” Scott-Miller said.
However, less than one year after its grand opening, Scott-Miller decided to close the store after receiving several threats.
Scott-Miller said the closure happened during an election year, and given the world’s current political climate, she knew it was essential to act promptly. She said she just could not sleep well knowing what the bookstore offered was no longer available to the community.
So she reopened the shop in late December 2025 in what Scott-Miller describes as a “historic Black strip,” just across from St. Augustine’s University. The new location features a wide variety of books, resources and programming for everyone to enjoy.
