Ashanti encourages children to embrace their name, story
My Name is a Story is a picture book designed to motivate children.
ATLANTIC CITY — Grammy award winning recording artist Ashanti visited the resort on Aug. 17 to promote her new children’s book My Name is a Story.
The visit to Phantasm The Experience, a museum in the Walk shopping district dedicated to taking selfies, also served as a back-to-school event to give students book bags in addition to free signed copies of the book. The event was sponsored by Elijah Langford and Demcats.
Ashanti said that the picture book was inspired by her own childhood challenges and that her goal is to motivate young people.
“I wanted to do something uplifting,” Ashanti said. “I wanted to do something that would encourage kids to just love themselves and be confident and be proud and understand that you’re special and you’re important and your name is special, and your name is a story.”
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Mark Tyler graduated from Atlantic City High School and went on to Columbia Union College, in Takoma Park, MD, which is now Washington Adventist University.
Mark earned a BA degree in Journalism. His major was Journalism/Publications. His minor was Communications. Upon graduation, he accepted a three-month internship with his hometown paper The Press of Atlantic City. That three-month internship was extended to six months and in the fifth month he was hired as a professional Staff Writer.
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New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest
Responsible Journalism First Amendment
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Local School Boards Rack Up Travel Expenses
3rd Place, Daily over 60,000
2002
New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest
Reporting and Writing, Community Home Run Award
Her Kitchen Long on Love, Short on Funds
3rd Place, Daily Over 60,000
2002
Garden State Association of Black Journalists
Features Award
Big Ben
2nd Place, Daily Over 60,000
1998
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