Bookstock 2023 raises money for literacy, education projects by recycling used media

Apr 11, 2023

The Detroit area’s largest used book and media sale, Bookstock, returns this year to Laurel Park Place in Livonia to once again benefit literacy and education projects in Southeast Michigan. Bookstock 2023 runs April 23-30 this year and will feature more than 400,000 used books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, vinyl records and more. Eight hundred volunteers coordinated the event. Leftover Bookstock items are donated to area nonprofits and charities in the community.

“American Black Journal” host Stephen Henderson sits down with Bookstock Honorary Chairperson Neal Rubin of the Detroit Free Press, Davison Elementary School teacher Kenya Posey, and Posey’s student Syeda Tausiyah, last year’s annual Bookstock essay contest winner, to get the details about Bookstock 2023.

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