Livin' Loud: Artitation'I was raised with an artist's mentality; my first 25 years were spent as somebody who wanted to live among graphics and artwork and illustration, and then for the next 30 years it was all music. Recently, I've reverted into the arts, combining all these elements in my work, still trying to change the world. This is truly what I want to do. My deepest thanks to Genesis for giving me a place to be able to display all of this through my artwork.' Chuck

critique the issues that are important to them

as told by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster and beautifully brought to life by Coretta Scott King Award Honoree artist Laura Freeman

But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup

Tarana's hello was serious and she hesitated for a bit before saying

Told with warmth

as does the rear endpapers' photograph of the massacre's aftermath

and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa

You can decide where to stop and where to start

A slew of harmful stereotypes continues to follow Black women

Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved

and people mentioned in the poem

the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government