In January 2023 Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria presented bestselling authors Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone to celebrate the launch of their latest book for young adults, “How to Be a (Young) Antiracist” and in May 2023 they presented #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds and his next installment to the Spider-Man universe “Miles Morales Suspended.”