Genesis Begins AgainThirteen year old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.

Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson

Her parents don't know about her passion

and anti-oppression

Tiders beckoned waves

and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them

is close at hand to offer advice

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans

This story was going to begin like all the best stories

Great Debater

this is a lyrical narrative that tells the story of survival

requiring the beating heart of a king

"--GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan