June 2026
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Anise, a girl marked by strange, green-eyed magic, is traded by her sister to a sinister suitor. While being transported by trolls, she taps into forbidden, innate power hidden within a torn grimoire page. Refusing to be a pawn, Anise rejects her family’s dark legacy to embrace her own destiny.
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The buried King Titus curses the moon goddess Seris (blue-skinned goddess like a blue-jay) , stealing her green-eyed children every twenty-five years to fuel his eventual resurrection. While a malevolent witch harvests these innocents for power, an ancient prophecy foretells the arrival of Anise (a black young woman with emerald eyes), a “twice-marked” girl destined…
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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun rose from a hairdresser’s daughter to Marie Antoinette’s portraitist, then fled the guillotine and painted her way across a continent. In an age that barred women from the easel, she conquered ten academies. This is the story of the woman who smiled in defiance of an empire.
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They crossed an ocean carrying coffin-shaped trunks and arrived pale as the dead. The filles à la cassette were real women sent to found colonial New Orleans — yet legend remade them into vampires. Discover the harrowing true history behind the city’s most enduring supernatural myth and the convent at its heart.
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Meet Anansi, the spider-trickster born in Akan-Ashanti tradition who conquered powerful foes through wit alone. Carried across the Atlantic by enslaved Africans, his tales became weapons of resistance, vessels of memory, and moral teachers from Ghana to Jamaica to Suriname. This is the story of how a spider became a hero.
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Br’er Rabbit, a central trickster figure in African American and Caribbean folklore, originated from West African hare traditions. Brought to the Americas by enslaved people, the character evolved into a symbol of wit and survival. While popularized by Joel Chandler Harris, the rabbit’s legacy spans diverse cultural intersections, including Native American parallels, and continues to…