A powerful coming-of-age story that explores family, identity, and finding your voice amid the destruction of a hurricane."This is an excellent examination of the ways wealth, gender, and color can shape and at times create mental and emotional fractures. Verdict: A great title for public and high school libraries looking for books that offer a nuanced look at patriarchy, wealth, and gender dynamics." —School Library Journal (starred review)"Bromfield may h...

"A devastating and nuanced look at two teens’ battle for freedom, hope, independence, and love." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)Perfect for fans of The Black Kids, Songs of Irie is a sweeping coming-of-age novel from Asha Bromfield about a budding romance struggling to survive amidst the Jamaican civil unrest of the 1970s.It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and t...

First collection by a beloved thinker in Black anarchismOne of the enduring legacies of the Black Power Era is the turn by some revolutionaries toward a politics that questioned hierarchical leadership, patriarchy, and the role of the state in social transformation. This practice came to define a distinct form of anarchism rooted in the Black experience. Ashanti Omawali Alston helped nurture and define this turn through his experiences with the Black Panther Party ...

POWERFUL DJINN MAGIC!The djinn move silently among us. Supernatural beings formed from smoke and fire, they are able to create living illusions that can deceive our perception of reality. The seven djinn tribes have more influence in the world than is known. If a djinn takes a fondness to a person, that person can have all wishes granted.There are seven djinn tribes, and the Jinn tribe are the most easy of all the tribes to work with, but they possess limite...

A groundbreaking guide to getting more women into politics, from the celebrated political organizerA’shanti Gholar has enjoyed a front-row seat to the emergence of women as a major political force in America. As president of Emerge America, the national organization born out of Kamala Harris’s first race for San Francisco District Attorney in 1992 and dedicated to recruiting and training Democrat women of all ages and races to run for elected public office, Gholar ...

A book of poems about a teenager suffering, love and self love and questioning her faith

The poem from which BLACK UNDER derives its title opens with a resounding declaration: "I am black and black underneath." These words are an anthem that reverberates throughout Ashanti Anderson's debut short collection. We feel them as we navigate her poems' linguistic risks and shifts and trumpets, as we straddle scales that tip us toward trauma's still-bloody knife in one turn then into cutting wit and shrewd humor in the next. We hear them amplified through Anderson's dynamic voice, whi...

Ashanti Johnson is a Las Vegas-based author, storyteller, and digital content creator with a degree in Journalism and Media Studies. Since 2018, she has used her platforms to share honest conversations, interviews, reactions, and girl talk that connect with women through real-life experiences.A former Digital Content Producer at the Las Vegas Review-Journal and intern at 8 News Now KLAS, Ashanti brings her background in media and storytelling to her debut book, For the...

From Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti comes an empowering story about a girl who learns to love her unique name.First days aren’t easy for a girl with a name like Ashanti. It feels like no one can pronounce it correctly! But with some encouragement from her mom, Ashanti spells her name and learns just how special it is.A is for awesome, S is for sunsets, H is for hand games, A is for art…Inspired by Ashanti’s own experience, this delight...

POWERFUL CHARMS OF DJINN MAGIC!(Volume One)By Ashanti StarrFirst decide what you want. We will take the magic charm of wealth as an example. This can bring wealth and tangible property. So if you need money or anything physical this charm will be the magic of your choice. Now cut out the magic charm. The purpose of cutting out the charm is that you can carry it on your person at all times. On the other side of magic charm is written y...

Honey Fontaine has spent much of her adult life dodging her mother's attempts to marry her off, and has had enough. Her mother, having changed her own life by marrying into comfort and means, is determined to find a similar suitable match for her daughter, much to Honey's distress. At her wits end, Honey decides to enlist the support of Ashley Elliot, a well-off club owner and determined flirt, who will pretend to be Honey's man. Ashley is not Honey's usual type, but she finds herself incr...

REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME!MAGIC INVOCATIONS OF THE DJINN!First decide what you want. We will take the invocation of gold as an example. This can bring wealth and tangible property. So if you need money or anything physical this invocation will be the magic of your choice.The invocation is spoken to the four corners of the room. The purpose of reciting the invocation in this way is that you summon the power of the djinn from the four corners of the w...