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June 2024 by Oliver Bandong (Ollie)
second time in the lucy parsons center and it was great yet again :) love their variety of books + resources and the general vibes of the space!
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January 2024 by Ross Michaud
comfy store with lots of great literature. some books can be expensive but that's just the way she goes these days. and there's lots of cheap options that are still high quality. staff tend to be nice
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September 2023 by Catherine Lablanc
very relevant bookstore with kind, helpful staff. so many great titles! i wish i could buy every single one. i'd love to go to one of their movie screenings too.
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September 2023 by rhea bruen
very relevant bookstore with kind, helpful staff. so many great titles! i wish i could buy every single one. i'd love to go to one of their movie screenings too.
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June 2023 by Z Peverill-Conti
Good selection of books and also some cool events and stuff.
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May 2023 by Mohanad Abushaaban
This place is the best community organized bookstore in Boston. They are legit and have variety of writings by many radical writers. Great place.
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May 2023 by Hana Wallen
May Lucy Parsons name be actually honored and a space like this be built where BIPOC community members can feel welcomed. My limited experiences at the store have been alright, not the best. My experiences with individuals volunteering, terrible. Great selection of books though and events held by community members within the building.
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February 2023 by harry Plourde
I always have fun here and they got great selections Is a lot of food for thought
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January 2023 by Luis Alfonso
It is a place where from the moment you enter and see the atmosphere you realize that you are not going to have a good time, especially because of the people who work there
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July 2022 by Emerson D
The only thing leftist about this place are the books they sell. One of the owners is a trust fund kid, who couldn't care less about the poor in Boston or black and brown people. There are not different from the countless businesses in Boston who have gentrified the area. These suburban edge lords were recently attempting to incite violence against the police at a block party in Jamaica Plain and they sell t-shirt depicting cop cars being blown up. The staff there are mostly white, middle class yuppies who have no nothing for the JP Latino community. The owner is rich, but is still asking average visitors to help pay for a 30k project to fix the ceiling of their new digs. They also have been harassing the employees of SEED in JP for not caring about the community and just pretending to be "woke". Well Lucy Parson might just be describing themselves and they need a reality check.
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February 2022 by Shahbaz Soofi
Selection of mostly academic books & non-fiction & of course of the rad variety. Would have been nice to have gotten something by Bookchin or Freire there but didn't find their writing there.
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August 2021 by Ash C
A great bookstore with tons of books you can't find anywhere else! They have a great selection of progressive and radical books and have them organized very well. I also enjoyed looking at their Zine section.
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May 2020 by Samantha B.
This is just another case of hypocrisy and a disgusting store. The owner is all over social media begging for money. In addition, SHE is saying she's disabled and some days is in a wheel chair or using a cane but other days is dancing around the streets of JP. She begs for money and has kids that aren't hers living with her. She lives in filth and is a prostitute. Check out her twitter if you don't believe me. Last time I checked, prostitution was illegal. In addition, they have a "cops rest in piss" in their doorway. For those of you who don't know, JP is a dangerous place. Just last night two people were shot there. Those cops that this business shames are the same ones that protect them and allow them to be anarchists. Do yourselves a favor, go to Barnes and Noble. The books are clean. The workers aren't disrespectful.
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January 2020 by stefan tassy
It was small and disorganized, though the selection of books and convenient parking right next door more than makes up for it.
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September 2019 by Alishia Morales
Seems like a cool place, stopped by to donate a couple bags of things but they were closed, even though online it says they are open. Will remember to call before walking there again
