Trombone ShortyHailing from the Tremae neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy nominated artist headlines the New Orleans Jazz Fest.

" we learn what to do with wounds that will not heal

it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults

providing a balm for the wounds of anti-black-girlness and modeling how black women can nurture future generations

With a few reminders from her loving family and after remembering what being the Fresh Princess is all about

This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire the fortitude to survive and prosper

Cuz tonight I'm delivering

and culture and improved them with discipline

history-making inventions that started out as crazy ideas

Grace must face what she's been running from all along--the fears that make us human

but unlike her sister before her

And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat

"In the kind of place where I grew up"