James D. Watts Jr.

Tulsa World Scene Reporter

Fulton Street Books & Coffee, which has specialized in fiction and nonfiction by people of color, as well as from other marginalized segments of society, plans to close in the next month.

The store, owned and operated by Onikah Asamoa-Caesar, first opened at 211 W. Latimer St. in 2020, moving to its current location, 21 N. Greenwood Ave., next door to the Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center.

In a story earlier this year focusing on the few independent bookstores still operating in Tulsa , Asamoa-Caesar said that, in spite of what might seem to be a prime location for a store such as hers, Fulton Street Books & Coffee remained something of an undiscovered gem.

"Of course, in my world, everyone knows about Fulton Street, yet

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