Saint Rest Publications

10/12/2025

10/08/2025

My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witnessed individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is always a vocation, rooted in hopefulness. As teachers, we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know. - bell hooks, Ph.D.

10/08/2025

Saint Rest Publications is thrilled to announce the launch of Dr. Lathardus Goggins II's newest book, “Facing the Rising Sun: Activity Book Lessons Towards an Authentic Self”! This activity book is the replacement for the card deck. With additional activities like coloring, word searches, and crossword puzzles, Facing the Rising Sun: Activity Book is a culturally grounded, youth-centered resource designed to nurture self-awareness, cultural identity, and purpose through reflection and creativity.

Rooted in African-centered philosophy and supported by a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) framework, this activity book offers guided prompts, symbolic explorations, and affirmations that invite young people to look inward, reach backward, and move forward toward a fuller understanding of who they are and why they matter.

“Facing the Rising Sun” is the perfect addition to the “Bringing the Light into a New Day” collection. It dives deep into the themes of passage, process, and model, and it includes a workbook that’s designed to help parents and practitioners create a family-based community rooted in African-centered rites of passage.

To celebrate the new release, Saint Rest Publications is teaming up with Ingram Books for a limited-time special offer! The first 100 books bought directly from Ingram Books can be purchased at the special introductory price of $19.95 (that’s a $5.00 savings!)… just use the QR code or https://www.afrocentric.info/Facing_the_Rising_Sun/

Plus, there’s a special bundle deal for the “Bringing the Light into a New Day” collection (https://www.afrocentric.info/SaintRest/BringingBundle.html). The bundle includes an author-signed copy of each book for just $54.95, and it ships free!

10/06/2025

Bringing the Light into a New Day Collection ...

10/01/2025

If you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.
Proverb - Kenya

09/25/2025

Every people should be originators of their own destiny. - Maj. Martin Delany

09/17/2025

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people they oppress, because once you are educated, you will not ask for power, you will take it! - John Henrik Clarke, Ph.D.

09/10/2025

None but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley


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09/03/2025

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, and the second philosophy. - Alexandre Dumas

08/28/2025

Love is speech and/or action that results in the use of truth, in a manner that promotes the practice of justice and correctness at all times, in all places, in all nine areas of people's activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, s*x, and/or war. - Neely Fuller, Jr.

08/20/2025

Authentic self (a knowledge of self rooted in truth) is the prerequisite for authentic relationships with others. - Lathardus Goggins II, Ed.D.