Still Standing harlem collection Kevin "WAK" Williams' Out of

Kevin "WAK" Williams' Out of darkness depicts a black man surrounded by vices and darkness reaching toward his only source of light

a light bearing cross

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the flooding of our communities with drugs

Monica Stewart's Peaceful Moment depicts a black woman gazing peacefully toward an unseen light while sitting with her back against an arrangement of pillows

Still Standing harlem collection Kevin "WAK" Williams' Out of"We arrived on slave ships. My labor was used to build the United States of America. I fought to free this country and then I had to fight for my own freedom. I survived and endured lynchings, racism, segregation, the flooding of our communities with drugs, mass incarceration, gentrification, police brutality and more. I paid my dues to be recognized as an American and for equality. My scars and bruises are the receipts. Yet through it all. here I am.