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Publishing media that promotes awareness and development of an authentic self.

09/30/2026

Understand that as a teacher, you are working with a soul, which came from God, which belongs to God, and will eventually return to God. You will be held accountable. - Moses L. Osborne
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09/29/2026

Episode 8 of Rooted Dialogues is NOW AVAILABLE!

BUILDING THE PROCESS: Practical Strategies for Creating Rites of Passage

Who is teaching our children who they are—and how are we preparing them for what comes next?

Join co-hosts Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon, with featured guest Dr. Lathardus Goggins II, as they explore practical ways to create a family-based, community-linked, African-centered rites-of-passage process.

In our final From the Pages discussion of Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage, Chapters 4–5 connect identity, education, and responsibility to the work of preparing young people for life’s transitions. We also explore how “First Steps into Manhood” became a family tradition of preparation, responsibility, and belonging.

💬 What transition is coming in your family or community—and how will you help one another prepare?

🎧 Listen now https://rooted-dialogues.buzzsprout.com on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or Amazon Music.

Small steps. Stronger generations.
Listen. Subscribe. Share. And stay rooted.

09/26/2026

If we don’t value our culture, why should our children?

In Episode 7 of Rooted Dialogues, co-hosts Victoria Brown and LaVon Gordon explore how the ways adults live, learn, and participate in community shape what the next generation understands as valuable.

Today’s Dialogue asks us to examine how we practice cultural transmission. What stories do we tell? What books do we read? Who do we honor? And what do our children learn by watching what we make time for?

In From the Pages, Victoria and LaVon continue through Chapters 3 and 4 of Dr. Lathardus Goggins II’s Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage. They explore identity, purpose, responsibility, and becoming—and why meaningful transformation requires experience, reflection, mentorship, and opportunities to contribute.

The conversation connects cultural knowledge to everyday family life, offering practical ways to strengthen relationships between young people, elders, and community.

This week’s Take Root Challenge: Choose one intentional act of cultural transmission and do it with a young person. Share a family story, explore the meaning of a name, visit a cultural institution, or learn something together—and discuss why it matters.

Listen. Reflect. Share. And stay rooted.
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A Saint Rest Publications podcast—where community, culture, and critical thought converge.

09/24/2026

"To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn... to teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin." - bell hooks, Ph.D.
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09/21/2026

NEW EPISODE | Rooted Dialogues — Season Two, Episode Six

It Takes a Village: Building the Rites of Passage Process”

We often say, It takes a village to raise a child.

But what does it mean to actually build and practice village?

In this episode of Rooted Dialogues, Victoria Brown, LaVon Gordon, and Dr. Lathardus Goggins II explore the three components at the heart of the African-centered rites-of-passage model:

Village. Process. Sacred Knowledge.

The conversation asks us to move beyond simply having people around us and think more intentionally about relationships, responsibility, accountability, modeling, and development.

Who helps our young people see what adulthood looks like?

Who models service, integrity, scholarship, healthy conflict, and responsibility?

And perhaps the most important question:

Who is in your village—and what are they helping you become?

The episode also features Dr. Goggins discussing education advocacy and community responsibility, along with the release of We Have Always Been Genius, Book Three of the Saint Rest Reader Series.

🎙️ Listen to Season Two, Episode Six of Rooted Dialogues: Where Community, Culture, and Critical Thought Converge. https://afrocentric.info/SaintRest/Rooted-Dialogue.html

09/18/2026

Bring the light. Build the future. Empower the next generation.
The Bringing the Light into a New Day Bundle is a powerful African-centered rites of passage resource collection for families, educators, mentors, youth programs, and community leaders.

This author-signed bundle includes:
• Bringing the Light into a New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage
• Bringing the Light into a New Day: The Workbook
• Facing the Rising Sun: Activity Book

Together, these resources help nurture cultural identity, purpose, reflection, emotional intelligence, and community-linked development.

Bundle Deal: $54.95 + FREE shipping
Scan the QR code to order or visit https://afrocentric.info/SaintRest/BringingBundle.html

Knowledge. Culture. Character. Community.
— Saint Rest Publications

09/17/2026

Your story deserves more than a manuscript — it deserves purpose, care, and a pathway to impact.

Saint Rest Publication Services supports authors, educators, organizations, and change makers who are ready to bring knowledge, culture, and community-centered stories to life.

Whether you need Done-With-You guidance, coaching, and publishing support, or Done-For-You professional services from manuscript review to editing, design, setup, production, distribution, and launch materials, Saint Rest is here to help you move from vision to published work with cultural integrity.

Rooted in history. Fueled by knowledge. Built for what’s next.
Ready to bring your book to life?

Visit: https://afrocentric.info/SaintRest/StRestServices.html

Books build brighter people.

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09/16/2026

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers. - Proverb

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09/15/2026

Three eBooks. One powerful vision. A brighter tomorrow.

Saint Rest Publications is proud to present the 2026 Reader Series, a four-part eBook series created for educators, parents, mentors, and community leaders committed to developing whole human beings. Rooted in an African-centered perspective, each reader offers cultural grounding, practical tools, and reflection to strengthen identity, build belonging, support meaningful learning, and advance community accountability.

Books One through Three are available now for just $2.99 each:

Book One: Bringing the Light
A foundation-setting reader on identity, Sankofa, courage, and becoming—calling readers to stop waiting for change and start practicing it.

Book Two: Education as Human Development
A practical blueprint for transformative SEL, belonging, and restorative practice, reframing education as the development of whole human beings.

Book Three: We Have Always Been Genius
A bold reframe of achievement and success that challenges deficit narratives and honors culture, brilliance, identity, and purpose.

Read. Reflect. Apply. Transform.

Get your eBooks today at https://www.afrocentric.info/SaintRest/ReaderSeries.html or Amazon - https://link.amazon/B04KB5nXD
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