Articles/Blogs

Oprah Magazine 

This Traveling Library Is Making Sure "Black Women’s Literature Has the Place It Deserves" by Char Adams

Teen Vogue 

These Heroes Are Saving Black Feminist Classics by Putting Them on Wheels by Eric Ginsburg

Hyperallergic

Black Feminist Literature at the NY Art Book Fair: An Interview with the Free Black Women’s Library by Jasmine Weber

Splinter News 

The Free Black Women’s Library gives away books and black girl magic by Emma Bracy

Madame Noire 

There’s A Mobile Library That Celebrates Books Only Written By Black Women In Brooklyn by Tanay Hudson

Places Journal 

Fugitive Libraries by Shannon Mattern

Inside the revolutionary Free Black Women’s Library in Brooklyn written by Rossilyne Skena Culgan

The Woman Behind the Magic: The Free Black Women’s Library Founder OlaRonke Akinmowo

The Free Black Women’s Library: A Space for Radical Ideas by Sofia Pipolo

 

Non Profit Quarterly 

Cultural Activism in Motion by Eileen Cunniffe

Patreon Blog 

The Free Black Women’s Library is Curating Cultural Consciousness by Candace McDuffie

We Need Diverse Books 

The Free Black Women’s Library Celebrates Black Authors and Readers by Asha Sridhar
 

Media Clips/Podcasts

Now This News

Ola Ronke Founded Free Black Women's Library to Amplify & Celebrate Black Voices

Interference Archive Podcast

Audio Interference 63: Radical Access 2

Positively Black/NBC

Tracie Strahan sits down with Ola Ronke, the creator and director of The Free Black Women’s Library, to talk about how the free pop-up mobile library works. 
 

Here & Now/ABC

Sandra Bookman sits down with OlaRonke, creator and director of The Free Black Women’s Library

Raising Rebels Podcast

Raising Rebels is a parenting podcast featuring conversations with real parents. This episode is on beauty, what makes us feel beautiful, and how to make our children feel beautiful. We get into all the complications of living in a world where Black & Brown children often aren’t celebrated for their beauty and are made to feel other. 

Hear To Slay Podcast 

Hear to Slay is a Black Feminist podcast hosted by Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom and Roxane Gay. In this episode they dish on all things elite social clubs, belonging, and seeking safety in new spaces. OlaRonke Akinmowo, founder of The Free Black Women’s Library, stops by to share what it looks like to create liberatory spaces for us, by us.