ARTS & THE BLACK CHILD - BLACK CHILD JOURNAL, 2014, SPRING EDITION (ARTICLES HAKI R. MADHUBUTI, USENI EUGENE PERKINS, FANON HILL, VANESSA M. JONES, DR. KAHABI GANKA ISANGULA, And More! “Art defines, expands and signifies meaning while germinating gigantic hope. Art is a prodigious and primary energy force. Children’s active participation in music, dance, pain ting, poetry, film, photography, and the indigenous crafts of their people is what makes them whole, significantly human, secure in their own skin, culture and abilities. Thus generating in them unlimited possibilities.” “Art at it’s best encourages us to walk on water, dance on top of trees and skip from star to star without being able to swim, keep a beat or fly. A child’s “on fire” imagination is the one universal prerequisite for becoming an artist.”