# @blavity on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRRQVhlpJg
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-14T13:43:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Blavity (@blavity) — https://gondola.cc/blavity

## Caption

They banned the books. She opened a bookstore to hold every single one of them.

After Florida became the state with the most book bans in the country, Rep. Angie Nixon (angieforfl) turned her fight from the Capitol into her own Jacksonville community, opening Café Resistance caferesistance), a bookstore and community hub filled with the very titles being pulled from school shelves. What started as books has grown into free Black history lessons, tutoring, and wellness workshops for the whole neighborhood.

“They banned the truth, so we put it right here in the community,” Nixon says.

Now a candidate for U.S. Senate, she’s proving resistance can look like more than a protest. It can look like a bookshelf.

Head to blavity.com for her full story.

video source: flaccessnetwork

#Blavity #BlackNews #AngieNixon  #BlackHistory

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