The first Black-owned children’s bookstore in North Carolina was forced to close their downtown Raleigh location after the owners received a barrage of threats spanning back months.

The Liberation Station Bookstore was started by Victoria Scott-Miller and her husband, Duane Miller, with a simple mission in mind — to find books by Black authors that would resonate with their two young Black sons. “Our criteria was to find Black authors illustrators and stories that weren’t based in trauma,” Scott-Miller told CBS 17.