Formerly a vacant furniture store, the little newly-painted blue building on the corner of Jefferson and 3rd anchors the Noname Book Club, a BIPOC reading group founded by Chicago rapper Fatimah Warner, aka Noname.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-21/noname-book-clubs-radical-hood-library-offers-a-safe-stage-to-black-poets-and-musicians-in-south-la

Over the past five months, Wissam and Fatimah have shown extraordinary courage by speaking out against the violence they have endured, posting on social media and sharing powerful accounts of their plight in the media.

Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/01/grave-fears-for-gaza-sisters-returned-to-abusive-father-by-palestinian-security-services/

“Wissam and Fatimah have endured a raft of horrors at the hands of their father, whose violent clutches they only recently managed to escape.

Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/01/grave-fears-for-gaza-sisters-returned-to-abusive-father-by-palestinian-security-services/