Young “Sassy” has always been proud to be AME, a member of her African Methodist Episcopal church, but why? Sassy enjoys learning during the Children’s Church group, but that new boy knows more about AME than she does! With the help of her grandmother, “Big Momma,” she discovers the real story behind the founding of AME. Along the way, she and her friends and her brother, Franklin, deal with bullying, kindness, death, grief, pride, forgiveness, and the very ideas of fairness and including others. They also confront the harsh reality of prejudice and hatred when a gunman attacks the Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston. In Sassy Discovers the AME Church, one little girl embraces the idea of belonging to something so important, and of proudly sharing her faith with everyone she loves.

The stranger in Puzzle Town has everyone talking. When he gets off the bus, his frumpy old suitcase simply says Kevin. He looks normal, but in a town where everybody has knobs, Kevin has no knobs! He is too different! Where can he live? Who would ever want to be his friend? Then a powerful force enters Puzzle Town, and their world spins out of control. How will Kevin ever become a true citizen of Puzzle Town when he just doesn’t fit in?

Proud to be AME, young “Sassy” loves everything about her African Methodist Episcopal church. After learning how it was founded in Sassy Discovers the AME Church, now she and her friends and her brother, Franklin, are excited to research and make youth-group presentations about other famous African Americans who have made a difference. Curious about their founder’s family, Sassy becomes a history detective determined to uncover the truth about his son, Peter Allen. In Sassy Uncovers Peter Allen’s Secret, what amazing story will Sassy get to tell?

When Aaliyah and Kalani go from having fun to tussling, Big Mama puts it to rest, as fighting and bullying are plain wrong. Later Big Daddy tells the girls about the photo of a man on the mantle. “His name is Daddy Yo-Yo,” he says, telling the girls about his late grandfather, who watched out for all the children in his neighborhood. Daddy Yo-Yo and the Legendary Marble Tournament is about a group of boys having fun until Evil-Eye Bucket Smith tries bullying his smaller rival, young Chuckie Fry. Daddy Yo-Yo won’t stand for it. He knows that looking out for kids also means teaching about pride, self-worth, and caring for others. Find out who the real winners are as we all learn the wisdom Daddy Yo-Yo shares.

What do Zora, a Black American Princess and Nicky, a blond haired blue eyed Berkeley grad have in common? Absolutely nothing except for their excruciatingly out of touch preacher fathers.

The life and times of the thirty-second President who was reelected four times.

"I love the way you write sis India Olowokande Ame'ye. Your words are sweet and honest. You do not attempt to coerce or seduce. You do not solicit a contract with misery but instead with power, purpose and love. Thank you." -S. Chatman_________________A lovingly mystical and refreshingly radical literary spellbook that charms, heals, glows, amplifies, and supports healing, self-care, body transformations, and the divine feminine within us all. Part warm and witchy, part how-to grow more ass (rootworkers) and activate breast tissues (caretakers), part learning to embody love as abundance, part natural healing of fibroids and heavy, painful moon times, part conjuring and sensual narratives, part flowers, herbal teas, and fairies, part full body orgasms and orgasmic living brilliancy, part prose and word/sound/power. Part dreamy and celestial, practical and purposeful, transformative and paradigm shifting. Part djembe and an acoustic guitar. Part ancient (Africa) and recent (Georgia/South Carolina/California). Many parts of the highest-vibrational whole of existence, the womb and its mysteries, nourishment, and total and complete darkness!!--------I am a highly feminine woman unfixed in my femininity. Bending. Weaving. Waddling. Diving. Leaping. Spreading. Spraying. Dripping with femininity. Courageously shapeshifting into a serpent, a pharoah, a Goddess of Love, a warm and transformative ocean, a fairy (with wings), passionfruit or liliquoi, Oshun's daughter, a 7 year old mathematician, a wood nymph, a deer, an altar, an elder person, a mother, a jackhammer, a herbalist, glitter and starlight. Ageless, timeless, spaceless, formless embodiments of royal movement. Sometimes it's growing my ass, thickening my fingers, or rounding out my face (heightening my youth) to get the medicine inside. Because anything stagnant dies." _______________________"She spends whole days in uncontrollable ecstasy. And no one is there but her and her higher self. Alone time feels good going inside." _____________________________In 2003, triple-Bachelor degreed, India Ame'ye resigned from her Sr. Accountant position in Corporate America in pursuit of passion, love (learning and embodying love), aliveness, and a big ol' adventure. There was also the wonder and magic of pain, grief, sadness, depression, and tiny steps into learning how to return ALL experiences back into love.... and most importantly, allowing the experiences to resonate as love in the body. "You Look Like Something Blooming" is a charming yet raw encounter with spirit, adventure, love, intimacy and sex, pleasure, nature, and so much more. Described as refreshingly radical, authentic, healing, opening, while being a bit dreamy, tender, faraway, lulling, ancient yet familiar. Occasionally quite funny alongside some brand of thrilling, womanly wildness. Chockfull of intimate and feminine arts in deeply honest ways, you are sure to transform in thought, action, pleasure, and/or adventure. There are also the more practical and serious bits as well as life is like that sometimes, where you have to hold the mirror up and say 'I am ready to stop hurting my organs!' It's steaming cauldron full of magical secrets and healthy living (blooming) tips, bit of this and whole lot of that! From skin to body sculpting tips to ways to come alive in your body and life, how one falls out of love and rises as love, the seed and harvest of her own love story. "You Look Like Something Blooming" is seriously 5 books in 1.

University Press returns with another short and captivating book - a brief history of The 1619 Project. In August of 1619, a pirate ship sailed its way through the still-warm waters of The Atlantic Ocean, heading north along the coast of North America, a continent that was then known to most Europeans as the New World. The ship arrived at Jamestown in the British colony of Virginia, carrying an expensive cargo that the pirates hoped to sell to the colonists - Africans. The ship's crew had stolen the 20 or 30 Africans from a Portuguese slave ship. And that slave ship had captured the men and women from an area of west Africa that would one day be Angola. Thus began a 250-year history of slavery in a land that would later become the United States of America. In August of 2019, on the 400-year anniversary of the introduction of African slavery to America, The New York Times Magazine released a 100-page spread called The 1619 Project, a collection of essays and profiles that discusses the history and legacy of slavery in America and, in the words of its authors, "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United States' national narrative." But this bold reframing of America's history has attracted withering criticism, generated intense controversy, and stimulated a fierce national debate. This short book peels back the veil and provides a clear-eyed glimpse into the explosive history of The 1619 Project - a glimpse that you can read in about an hour.

Retirees battle grief and the system to save a boy while mysterious dancing lights transcend life and death.

This guide provides a simple, step-by-step process to better design. Techniques promise immediate results that forever change a reader's design eye. It contains dozens of examples.