[applause] color by jim callahan and imagine. [applause] on the come up. the other side. [applause] and genesis began again. [applause] and new kid. [applause] >> new kid is laugh out loud combination of heart and story that captures the beauty of graphic novels author and illustrator along with poet jim callahan is the angst of an african-american child waiting to start seventh grade in a white private school you're invited to be friends with jordan the protagonist as well as those who inhabit this community this is a generational story everybody's treated compassionately it can only be written by someone who had himself has responded to micro- aggression and successfully navigated power structures as an activist and a peacemaker and a superhero for us all thank you for creating him. [applause] >> i have the angst of an african-american 12 -year-old kid right now. [laughter] [applause] thank you everyone who made this possible. i wasn't a reader when i was growing up and went from spiderman for years and not until i read great expectations by charles dickens but somehow

(dar walk to jim )it's the same with the piano and that's why jim callahan is here..oakland.. you had to have oakland.. you recall any exchange or where he asked me any questions. i think he was sort of a duly noted. gordon what are you talking about. after this meeting you discussed this pull aside you had with mister yermak where you relayed. they needed to announce these investigations. they are to being released is that right. i said i didn't know exactly why but this could be a reason. and obviously you have been speaking with mister yermak for quite a while about a public announcement of these investigations right we had all been working on. movers bring these in to the studio which just illustrates the number one problem in learning to play.. which is: most people don't have a piano.. (jim talks and shows) the piano man billy joel. famous pianist.. i wont go back to liberace or anybody else cuz the kids prob don't even know him. here's somebody everybody knows these days: lady gaga... she makes piano look supercool. she's also so talented she shows off how she