(East Bay Express) — Twenty months ago, Marcus Books in Oakland was in foreclosure. The owners of the nation’s oldest African-American bookstore had fallen victim to a Ponzi scheme and were facing difficult financial times. They never did get their money back from the people who defrauded them, but in the year and a half […]
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