Bingham's Books & Culture

Bingham’s Books & Culture 

Is a proud member of the American Booksellers Association and a Black, Indigenous, and Woman-owned Literary Agency office space based in Hamden, CT. 

While utilizing our online bookshop for direct shipping across the US and UK, we are currently searching for a new physical location. Our shop is designed to celebrate marginalized communities, specifically Black Hip-Hop and civil rights culture, which is inspired by the Founder and her Great Grandfather, civil rights activist, entrepreneur Russell Bingham. 

You can read more about his work in this title "A Nation Within a Nation" by Komozi Woodard.

Again, we are a former Brick-and-Mortar Independent Bookseller doing Book shipping online while (looking for a new Brick-and-mortar location) focused on centering community care and inclusion. 

We are here to promote healing, wellness, and to keep America’s social justice histories of the 1960s era current in the collective consciousness of the whole community. For this reason, it is named in honor of the founder’s great grandfather Russell Bingham, Bingham was a WWI Vet, Entrepreneur, and Civil Rights leader who, after experiencing racism from his countrymen during WWI, returned home and took action to organize his community for better political representation. He organized the community of Newark New Jersey, specifically, its black community, which resulted in successfully electing the city’s first black Mayor, Ken Gibson. He was a soldier stationed in the 369th Infantry, more commonly known in history as the "Harlem Hellfighters".

Bingham’s is also meant as a Safe Space for book lovers to gather and a Bookstore where authors, artists, and other organizations can come together to promote and sell their work and also increase access to literacy-rich opportunities. It is intended to foster a lifelong love of poetry and reading while honoring the names of those who shaped us while remembering our family and community history.

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"The Bingham's Team"

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