This week’s installment of BIPOC book news includes updates about Willow Smith and her first novel, Tabitha Brown and her literary angel, and a Black-owned children’s bookstore that can’t breathe because of death threats.

Terry McMillan partners with Lifetime Television. Langston Hughes Gets a Party in Cuba. An indie, Black-Owned bookstore rises from the brink of disaster. This is my new column on book news from a BIPOC perspective.

Josephine’s Bookshop is a new Pop-Up bookstore in Paris. Founded by Philadelphia bookseller, Jeannine Cook, the bookshop pays homage to the incomparable Black American entertainer, expat and spy, Josephine Baker.