Inspire
From Trench Town to the Classroom and the Page: Dainty Nix’s Journey of Resilience and the Little Ant Who Could
Dainty Nix was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the youngest of five children, and raised in Trench Town. This area is renowned to the world as the birthplace of reggae music. To the people who live there, however, it is a place very best remembered in terms of the...
The Soul of Democracy: Alfred H. Kurland’s Life of Resilience, Activism, and Youth Empowerment
The moment Alfred H. Kurland walked into any classroom, community center, or crowded civic forum across the New York City boroughs, he saw a parade of orphans, rebels, and lovers - as archetypes of untapped potential, seeds of wisdom and transformation. For decades,...
Forty Years in Silence: Brenda Bradford Ward’s Journey to Truth and Transformation
When Brenda Bradford Ward discusses the forty years she spent "in hiding," there is bitterness beneath the gaze, the angling blues beyond the personal. In this 2022 volume, Forty Years to Life, she concurrently blends autobiography and a cultural critique, historical...
From Top Chef to Top Dad: Hosea Rosenberg’s Recipe for Resilience
On a cold night in Boulder, diners downed their drinks to the melody of pans sizzling and conversations rising. At the center of it all was Hosea Rosenberg, chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef Season 5 winner. His calm precision and quiet authority defined the room - a...
An Insightful Exploration of a Barbadian Voice: Gloria Lewis and the In-Depth Examination of the American Dream
"You only fail when you give up." - Gloria Lewis While a million success stories talk about reaching out for the American Dream, Gloria Lewis brings to us something much rarer: a frank and heartrending account of what that dream might actually cost. She was born and...
A Mother’s Lament, a Poet’s Voice: Shawn Jackson’s Quest to Preserve Kyle’s Light
Shawn Jackson's life shattered on the morning of June 8, 2013. Her 22-year-old son, Kyle Burke Jones, had been gone more than a month when a team of hikers stumbled upon his body under the waters of the Spokane River. No definitive answers. No conclusion. Only...
When the Sky Went Silent: Jean Quaal’s Memoir of Loss, Hope, and the Search That Spanned the Sky
STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA - On an unseasonably chilly October morning in 1974, the hum of a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron was supposed to tear into the Sturgis sky. Onboard were the remains of a father and two teenage daughters-those unfortunate souls of a tragic collision...
TRIUMPH THROUGH TRIAL: How a Soldier, a Saint, and a Family’s Faith Converged into a Global Message of Hope
Cinching together the disassembled pieces of the story of his in-laws, retired United States Army lieutenantcolonel Joseph P. Kenney never expected to find the seeds of a modern-day miracle. Nor did he foresee that, years later, his work would become the inspiration...
From the Brink of Darkness: An Indiana Farmer’s Harrowing Journey and the Unconventional Message of “Good People Don’t Go To Heaven”
West Terre Haute, IN – The 1970s were a time of profound upheaval and changing paradigms in the American landscape. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War protests, political assassinations, and rise of the counter culture, a young man named Kent Lyle Hutchinson,...