Milmundos Bookstore

Milmundos Bookstore

María Herron carefully measures out two spoonfuls of La Carreta Cuban coffee while I take in the books lining the shelves of her store. As the cafecito brews, she sets out two saucers and espresso cups – her mothers’, she explains – as she discusses rising gentrification in her neighborhood, racial politics, and the quality of nearby schools. “There are all these conversations that need to be talked about,” she says, and then gestures to the coffee, “over something like this.”

Herron opened Mil Mundos, a bilingual bookstore and community space, this March to bring radical literature to her predominantly Latinx neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn. Mil Mundos stocks about half of its books in Spanish, and walking around the store, you’re just as likely to stumble upon a copy of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States as Los condenados de la tierra.

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