Chronicles of a Rose Boy is a written collection rooted in Charleston’s Gullah Geechee soil and reaching across the entire African diaspora. Through essays, poetry, and lived testimony, Chuck King follows the “Rose Boy” who walks the Charleston market selling palmetto roses on land his ancestors once bled for, turning a tourist trinket into a symbol of survival, lineage, and resistance.
 
Guided by six Tokanji principles—Tanari (unapologetic Blackness), Jakwani (womb and warrior), Zanáfamu (collective unity), Kobrani (sacred defense), Tanzafoka (turning distortion into power), and Kulanshi (ancestors and ancestral memory) this book becomes both reflection and blueprint.
 
It moves from the Cannon Street All-Stars and Back the Green, to Black Nationhood and self-defense, to healing circles, fatherhood, and the war on Black youth in the streets and in the mind.
 
This is not an abstract theory text; it is a community-facing work built for barbershops, classrooms, healing circles, and front porches. Chronicles of a Rose Boy invites readers to remember who we are, reclaim our stories, and decide together what the Bloodline becomes next