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 ...

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 ...

This is the tale of four inner city characters, who find themselves trying to cope and living day to day under pressure from a society that has a schizophrenic, love/hate relationship with them. Wanting to strive but finding themselves struggling to survive, they turn to dysfunctional and unorthodox strategies to meet their goals. However, when their goals are turned upside down by forces beyond their control, they are again forced to dig deep into their bags of tricks to find meaning and ...

Pieces of Me All Over the Place is a poetic biography reflecting many different pieces of Ashanti's life. This book takes you on a roller coaster ride of many twists and turns. It covers such topics as self-esteem, domestic violence, love, heartbreak, prayers, self-worth, social injustice, and the demise of African-Americans.Poems such as Am I Good Enough and Broken Vessel dive into self-esteem as Ashanti questions her own self-worth in relationships. Teach Me is Ashanti's personal...

Winner of the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook CompetitionThe 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 hu...

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...

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...

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...

Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People’s Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements that have most challenged the U.S. empire from within: Black Panthers and other Bl...

Set in rural Jamaica, Swimming With Fishes evokes the pain of a love affair between a London-born businessman and a native Jamaican and how that affair grows beyond either of their expectations...Sickle cell anaemia sufferer Kat wants a baby more than life itself. When the town herbalist foretells of a man from across the ocean who will father her child, Kat's hopes intensify into a dream that must come true.Her encounter with Londoner Ben years later edges the prediction tow...

Set in rural Jamaica, Swimming With Fishes evokes the pain of a love affair between a London-born businessman and a native Jamaican and how that affair grows beyond either of their expectations...Sickle cell anaemia sufferer Kat wants a baby more than life itself. When the town herbalist foretells of a man from across the ocean who will father her child, Kat's hopes intensify into a dream that must come true.Her encounter with Londoner Ben years later edges the prediction t...

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...