Yusef Harris

Yusef Harris has been operating an independent bookstore in Nashville for almost 30 years. Alkebu-Lan Images, on Jefferson Street in North Nashville, is housed in a former gas station, and its shelves practically spill over with academic tomes from civil rights activists alongside traditional fairy tales reworked for African-American kids, T-shirts emblazoned with portraits of Nelson Mandela and Redd Foxx, health products like organic shea butter and Nubian Heritage soaps, and complex West Afric