Oh, it's been a hot minute since I got a basket full of new products that I never tried before. I put them on my face because I'm being honest, the makeup launches have been a huge yawn to me lately and I know a lot of you feel the same. I know a lot of you have not been buying because the launches have sucked. I've honestly been feeling a little uninspired with my content lately because I've been so uninspired by the launches but I did just get the R.E.M. Beauty Chapter 2 collection in the mail, parts of it, not the whole collection. I have some things sitting around here and there that I haven't gotten to play with. I've been retesting a lot of newer products and really getting a thorough feel for them but I'm excited to just play with a bunch of new makeup. So if you want to sit here through that, then just keep watching. Little good old makeup play session. This is not new but I need to put on my sunscreen. I did put on sunscreen a few hours ago this morning and then I just sat out on our patio a little bit with Jose and I came in and looked at the mirror and I realized how many freckles I had. It just made me feel like I needed to put on more sunscreen which I know unrelated to this video. This Tula Skincare Mineral Magic Sunscreen Fire. I have been loving it. Lately I've been using a Kate Somerville one that has been really awesome but I think this feels a little bit more of skin carry. It leaves like no casts at all so I love this. The Kate Somerville that I've been using does leave a white cast foundation. This I've tried once but I want to use it again. One size sent this to me in the mail before I moved so I never got the chance to play with it. This is the one size turn up the base beauty blur balm cream. My shade is light too. This I think of the two that they sent me works the best. I use it like two days ago and I have mixed feelings about it. So I'm just going to put a little bit right here. It's very interesting how this works. You can see how matte it looks. It kind of feels like a mattifying primer if I'm being honest and I like the way that it blends in with my finger. I do feel as though it does blur but I also feel like it can kind of separate and look a little dry and emphasize some dry areas on the face that I didn't know that I had. So that's at least my first impressions of it when I wore it for the first time. So I'm wearing it again to decide. Ideally I would have put a glowy base underneath but I want another day to kind of test the wear time before I play with anything too glowy. I've been enjoying this rare beauty foundation brush. I think it blends products like this really nice. I also used it recently for the Shanta Kai Gel Foundation. It was beautiful for blending that out because the brushes are so kind of stiff that no product is being sucked up into the bristles. Am I close enough? Do you want to be closer? Hello. Maybe you didn't but it's fine. So the way that I felt about this the first time that I wore it is up close. It looked kind of separated and dry but from not even like a far distance but when I wasn't looking extremely close in mirror from a normal distance that you would say be like talking to a person I thought my skin looked really really good. So that's why I very mixed opinions on this so far. Up close it was just not really good at all and then from not far distance I think my skin looked super blurred and even and still super natural. So that's what I'm trying to figure out. So it might depend on what setting you're going to be in. If you're going to be somewhere where someone is really up close and personal to your face then maybe don't get this. I don't know it just it's weird because even though it didn't look that great from a close distance it looked like really really good from a medium distance. So that's why I couldn't decide but I want you to see how it's kind of I don't know if separating is the right word but it's like seeping into my pores and you can literally see it. So I don't know but as you can see when I step out it doesn't look great now. I think my oils need to come through first before I can say that. It looked better with wear when I first used it but still like even everything out and smooth things but then up close it didn't so I don't know. I'm going to pop up my eyebrows really quickly because I have zero new eyebrow products and I will be right back. Okay, eyebrows are done. I also put on a little bit of the Westman Atelier Face Trace Contour Stick and Biscuit because I have a cream blush so I wanted a cream bronzer to really play with that formula but let's go to the under eyes. And that brings us to the first product from the Rem Beauty Collection. They said this is like chapter two. I don't have everything from the collection. I'm on their tier two The Harliss. It literally said that on the box. Tier two so I didn't get the fancy I don't know thing that tier one got and then I'm missing like an eyeshadow palette or something. No, it's fine. I just thought that was funny. So this is the cooling blurring under eye balm. It's supposed to energize the eye area and it's supposed to melt away the look of puffiness and reduce the appearance of dark circles for a bright eye look. Well, let's see. I enjoyed the packaging of this. Very interesting that they even wanted to send me stuff because I was not super nice about the first launch. Like I wasn't mean. They had some good stuff. But for the most part I was like, uh, this is what it looks like. Super duper interesting, right? I'm happy that they sent me this because this is intriguing. Hmm. It does kind of feel awakening. Like it feels quite cooling, but I feel like now I put nothing on underneath. It feels almost like a siliconey face primer. So I don't feel any hydration going on and I wish I did. I also did not agree with the Patrick Star blurring balm at all. I don't know if you can see, but completely broke up that right there. But I'm not surprised. That kind of had the texture as though it would break up foundation. So I don't know about putting that underneath makeup. It feels good. It feels awakening. Like I would put that on my eyes in the morning, but maybe not before makeup and it doesn't necessarily feel hydrating. So put on a little bit of concealer. I'm going to bring it lower so I can cover this part that got messed up. This is the L.I.S. Triple Fix Serum Full Coverage Brightening Concealer. Not new to me, but new to the market. I've been using this one for some time, but I don't have a brand, brand new concealer. This is the best that we're going to get. And I've been thoroughly enjoying this. I would like to update you all. It's been really nice and hydrating. I got a shade that you can see is a little bit deep, kind of peachy, but for every day I don't mind it. And if it's looking a little dark, I think it is today. So I'm going to go in and correct that. I'm just going to put something a little bit lighter on top, but I've been loving the correcting. This is done, but it does look super-duper natural if you're not wearing any makeup as you can see. It's not too, too dark. But if I do notice that it is, I'll just like pop a little bit of a lighter concealer on top and then that will kind of even everything out. This is a KVD concealer that I just used that I do not recommend at all, but it doesn't do much harm when I just use a dot of it, in the areas right now on my face. I'm going to very lightly set my under eyes for the eyeshadow. I don't want the eyeshadow stick to stick on it. So the newest powder that I have is the Rare Beauty Setting Powder in Light. You did see this in a haul, so I've used it a few times since. I do like this powder. The light medium that I got was way too dark on me, so I did repurchase the powder in a lighter shade, and I do like it a lot more now that it's in a more reasonable shade. I'm just going to use that right here. I don't want too much powder on my face because the one size beauty balm, it's like matte, so just on the under eyes right there. Okay, let's get to the new new though. So I do have two of the new eyeshadow palettes from Rem Beauty. I liked the first one that I tried. They're good. I don't have anything bad to say about them, but I don't have anything like amazing to say about them either. It's just one of those things where it's a solid formula, something to write home about. So this is Go-Go Boost. This, I think it's going to be a really fabulous spring palette. And then the other one that we have here is Groovy Baby, which is a little bit more cool. But again, both of these are a great spring launch. I think they have some really, really nice colors here. I think I'm going to go into Go-Go Boots because it has that baby blue that I think will go with my dress, and it looks more like cotton candy. So let's see what I think of that. I do one eye to collect my thoughts, and then I'll do the other eye with you guys. So this is the look that I came up with. Really springy. I really like it, honestly, and it was pretty easy to create. I mean, I'm telling you before I get into it, I like this palette, but again, it's the same feelings where it's a really good palette, but it's not a really great palette. There's nothing super special about it, but I do like it. So I'm going to start off with the blue shade, which I am actually very impressed with this shade. It held its own, and it actually can be built up to be quite pigmented. And I ruined my other eye. I added a shade for depth, and I'm mad that I did that. I wish I would have just left this shade really bright. But look at this. You see how it's building up, and it's not too powdery, and it doesn't blend away. It's not chalky or anything. So this is actually a very solid formula. I definitely like this palette. No issues with it whatsoever. So this is just going in the outer corner, outer half of my eye, as you can see. It's not pretty. Okay, we're going to build. So the next shade that I'm going to go into is the purple shade right here. This one is a little dusty, in my opinion. It doesn't quite adhere to the eyelid as easy as I would like, and you really need to pat and press it in. Otherwise, it doesn't look quite so smooth on the eyelid. It looks like a powder on the eyelid. It doesn't look creamy or one with the eyelid at all. So honestly, I'm just going to take my finger and press it to the center of my eye. So this is not my favorite shade in the palette. The matte aqua shade is definitely a lot better, and we are going to have to go back in and reapply it as well, because it's going to dust away. And then I'm going to go into the pink shade. I have similar feelings that I do with the purple shade about this, but it is a little bit better than the purple shade. It can definitely make it work. It's pretty, it's soft, but again, it's average. So I'm going to put just a little bit in the inner corner, and I'm going back into the purple. I'm going to put it right in the center to wipe away the fallout. I didn't get too much fallout on the other eye, so I think I was a little too heavy-handed today. So we're going to take the lighter champagne shade right here, and I'm going to put that on the inner corner right underneath the brow bone. So this is where I would have stopped. Like, this is where you should stop if you are creating this look, like an ice cream kind of look, but just to even things out, I did take this dark burgundy shade and use it as an outer corner color, but honestly, if I were to do this again, I'd do a navy instead, because this does not really look good as the definer in this look. I don't really know about this shade because I'm not applying that much of it, but I know I don't like mixing it in with the blue because it looks a little dirty, but the reason that I'm doing it anyways is because I already did it on the other eye, and I have plans to go to Nordstrom today. I'm going to just make them even. Don't do this if you have this palette. I'm going to add just a little bit more purple. But no, I mean, isn't this look pretty, though? It's a really great look for spring. I'm digging it. I really, really am. I also got two of the metallic gel eyeshadows that I'm going to play with, so I don't even know what this one is called because the sticker on the bottom fell off. But here's the texture. You want to see a kind of like a jelly-much eyeshadow from Colourpop. So this one, let's see how it swatches. What do you think? Kind of sheer, right? Where's it the lighting? No, it is sheer. You don't really see much. There's very soft pink reflex that you can see. I'm going to put it like just a little bit on the center of the eyelid over the purple. It looks pretty and soft. It does have a little bit more very fine glimmers in it than the powder eyeshadow. So it is adding a little extra oomph to the look. I'm not applying too much. I want to try these on the eyelids by themselves to really be able to judge. This is pretty and it's soft. Kind of fairy-like, which I do. I actually like the way that this looks. It's not overly glittery if you don't like that look. And it feels rather light on the eyelid. Do I like these? I don't know. This one looks like old or something. This is touch. I don't know. Let's see how this swatches. That would be my laundry timer. Again, super duper sheer. It really is like almost a lid topper with just a little bit of glimmer to it. So yeah, I don't think these are meant to give too much pigment off. I'm going to put it, I don't know. I'm just putting it. It's not supposed to give off too much of a pigmented base. I think it's more so about the glimmer and shine that it gives. I'm not as crazy about this one, but I think it's because I put it over the pink. If I put it over the aqua shade, say the aqua shade was all over the eyelid, and then I put this on top, I think it would be a really pretty look. I'm going to have to try that tomorrow. I will use the matte blue shade all over, and then I'll put this over top because I think that would look a lot better. Because it's contrasting a little bit more over the pink than I would like. I don't know though. I think this might be a quick, reliable, subtle glitter product. It does dry kind of fast. Like, I didn't have enough time to blend this one out. But it did add a little something to the look. I'm not mad at that. I thought I was not going to like those, but they dried out and they look pretty. I kind of like that. I do. It's not a product that I see myself reaching for a lot, but I kind of like it. Okay, let's move on to the cheeks. I'm excited about these. I got two of the cheek and lipsticks. So we have two shades here. One is Audition, which is lighter than Broadway Baby. So here's what the packaging looks like. It looks like a spaceship, right? Okay. So I'm going to put Audition on my lips first. Hey, that has a lot more pigment than I was expecting. And this color is super pretty. If I use like a good lip liner, I think I would like that. I'm going to put out my sponge first. This is the way that I normally apply cream products, so I'm going to be fair. And like I said, this one is Audition. So it's kind of rosy. Oh, that's pretty. I don't notice it's breaking up the product underneath. So this also is a product that I'm not very familiar with. That's underneath. Hey, I think I like this. And I normally, with these sticks, only like them for the cheeks, they're usually not good on the lips. But this was good on the Ariana. I don't know. I feel like I like this launch better than the first launch. The products. I don't know. I just like them. Okay, this is Broadway Baby. This one is a little bit more raspberry. I'm hiding because my camera won't focus. But look at that pigment. That's pigmented.  You see, one swipe, you get a lot of color. I'm definitely going to have to be very like, handed with this as a cheek color. If I'm light handed, it looks pretty. Ooh, I like this. I'm a fan. I prefer for my skin tone, the shade audition. But we'll see how it wears. But if it wears, how I think it's going to wear, I think we're going to like this. That's a good product. I was not expecting to like that. And then for highlights, I have this fluid sheer from Armani Beauty in the shade. Number two is the shade. This is not a new product. This is just a product that I had laying out that I've never tried before. So we're going to try it. Oh, it's very liquidy. I think you're really supposed to mix this in with foundation or put it on underneath. But I wanted to see how it went as a highlight. I was hoping for something really, really subtle and it just broke up the blush over top. So we'll just break up the other side. Okay, yeah. No, this is not how the products meant to be used. Scratch that. We're not going to have a highlight. It did actually add a little bit of a glow though. I'm not going to lie, I definitely don't like this as a liquid highlight. I can already tell you. Sorry, the sun came out. It's too bright. Can you see that better now? Not a fan of that. Hard Candy came out with a collection of a lot of eyeliners, lots of different colors. I should get a navy. Hold on. I lied to you. I told you they had a lot of different colors. I got a few. I don't know. Let's see. So these are the Hard Candy Lungwear eyeliner pencils. They did send these to me in KR. So let's try first Sky-ish blue to see how that goes in the waterline. Okay, I don't know. Are these pigmented? I don't know. I'm just going to put that in my waterline. Oh, that did not take many swipes. Okay, good. It's a little hard, but it does lay down the color. Sometimes I'm a little skeptical of affordable eyeliner pencils because I feel like they're hard and don't leave any color, but that was actually pretty easy. I want to see the color Wink Wink. It looks pretty light in the box, so I might not end up using this. I wanted more of a navy, but let me swatch it. So again, this is Wink Wink. It's not the right blue. I need to put that back. Okay, I'm just going to use the black shade, but I remember when Hard Candy was sold at like Nordstrom or something, and then the brand went away and then they revived themselves in Walmart. But let's try this. Is it smooth? What do I think? Oh, it's not bad. It's not the smoothest pencil, but it's not the hardest pencil. Oh yeah, okay. I'm just going to do like a wing like that and then put it towards the ends. A true baby wing. Then I'm going to smudge this on my tight lane and then I am very gingerly going to run this through my eyelashes to see if I can make an almost imperceptible line of definition throughout my lash line. Like you see what all I'm doing? I'm literally just smudging it in the lash line very lightly and I'm taking my finger. I'm just rubbing it in and it's giving subtle definition for the lashes that I'm about to do. Okay, great. I mean, that was fine. I don't think those are groundbreaking eyeliners, but for the drugstore, I'm not upset. Esum sent me their new mascara that they just launched. I've used this a few times. I really like this mascara. It doesn't give the most volume, but it does do a good job of separation. It looks really good on my lower lash lines. So give me a moment. I'm going to apply this. You guys know I love supporting Esum. I love the brand. This is definitely a very thoughtfully put together product. So let me put this on. This is just with one quick coat and you guys know I am not working with very much. So I like this. It's good. The last thing that they sent me from the Arian Beauty collection is the Provacateur. Yes, Provacateur lashes. I didn't really like the lashes in the first collection that they launched. So I don't know that I'm going to like these or use them. I'm going to rest them against my eye though to see if I want to use them today. These are quite bigger than the ones I had first. I just think these are too extensive for what they are and the band is a little thin and it doesn't hold shape. Like it's just straight. It doesn't look like, I don't know, wispy enough. It's too straight. What do you think? I mean, they're okay. But I have so many better lashes. Like you're better off just buying Ardell. I'll put them on though. I will wear them. I've decided that. So let me pop them on and I will show you how they look. Honestly, you guys, the lashes look better than I thought they would. Don't they look really pretty?  These are kind of pretty. I'm surprised. Okay, now for lips. I put a little bit of the KKW lip liner in nude one. I know you can't get this anymore, but it's just like a basic nude, cool lip liner. I'm going to pop on just a little bit of the audition lip color. Lip and cheek stick. Isn't that pretty? And then I'm going to top it with a gloss that I've not used yet. This is not new, but Laura Mercier sent this to me. But this is the Bear Pink lip glaze. Isn't it so pretty? I've been loving one of the lip glazes that I've been using, so I'm excited about this one. This is a milky pink. It's pretty clear, though. You can't see too much color. But I thought it would be nice to top off. I've never tried this color before, so it is new to me, but I'm familiar with the formula. Here's the makeup look, you guys. Get a plus in personal that one size product is looking really dry. It definitely looks worse than the first time that I used it. The first time that I used it, though, I wore it on a really lightweight makeup day. I used only cream products on top, really quick. It was a five-minute makeup day, so I think that's why it looked good. It was paired only with hydrating products, no powders whatsoever. Really light makeup, so it looked better than it does today, where I'm wearing a bit heavier of makeup. I'm still on the fence about this base thing, but other than that, I like the finish of the base cream, but there's a lot of flaws to it as well. Let me get my life together, and I will give you the final roundup. All right, guys, so here's the final look. I actually really, really like it. There's definitely some flaws due to the products when you look up close, but I'm very happy to wear this to Nortrum. I think it's really pretty in spring-like. Of course, I give you my two sounds on this. I don't think I like it. I'm going to continue playing with it, but it's a little too finicky. The LYX Triple Fix Full Coverage Concealer. This was not a new product to try today, but it's so beautiful, so hydrating. The Hard Candy Eyeliners. I think I like these. I can't say because I haven't worn them for very long, so that is how you can really tell with eyeliners, but I'm pretty happy with the creaminess of them. They're not the creamiest, but they're good for the price, but the pigmentation is what has impressed me with these. The Rare Beauty Setting Powder. I've been enjoying this. This is kind of an update. I like it a lot better now that it's my shade. It gives a very subtle glow. It's not an all-time favorite powder, but I do like it. The Armani Fluid Sheer Glow Enhancer. I used it completely wrong today. I do not recommend using it for liquid highlight. It's a little too liquidy for me. I'm going to play with that. It's like a base. The Esum Mascara. I've been enjoying. If you do apply too much of it, though, your lashes can look a little spidery and kind of clump together, so just be careful of that.  So I do like that. I also use the Laura Mercier Lip Glaze in Bare Pink for the first time. Really pretty. It's a nice, soft, comfortable formula. Not the most long-wearing, but not sticky at all. It doesn't give much color, but I think it's very pretty and it's going to go with a lot of different lip colors if you like nudes. Now we're finishing up with all the Armani Beauty Stuff. I don't think I'm a fan of the cooling, blurring under-eye balm before makeup. It disrupted the foundation that I had underneath. This is the kind of thing that I would put on when I first wake up just to leave something cooling under the eyes. And then when I do my makeup, I'd probably wipe it off or hope that it had dried down by then. But on the under-eyes, it has too much of like a siliconey texture or dimethicone. I don't know the difference. One of those, I don't like it before makeup, but it does feel good. The eyeshadow palette that I tried, Gogo Boost, I actually do like this. It's not perfect. It's the middle of the road formulation. But I do love the colors that they chose. Like I got such a pretty spring look. So I'm going to enjoy continuing to play with this because it's such a good palette for spring. The eye gels, I like them, but I don't love them. Like the touch shade, I put it down and it dried so quickly that it's like a little splotchy and not evenly applied. But they're pretty. They don't stand out on the makeup market. But I think they're nice. They don't crease. They do their job. They're good. They are good. My favorite thing from this launch though, loving these cheek and lipsticks. And I think for the whole Rem Beauty collection, I always say they're fine products. They just don't stand out. These are actually a product that I feel like do stand out on the market because they truly are a lip and cheek formula. I feel like with these kind of sticks, I never like them on the lips or I like them for one or the other, never both. This is truly universal and I liked this applied both on the lips and on the cheeks. So for me, this is one of the better cheek products that I've ever tried. So I do actually recommend these. These are good and stand out in the market and are very competitive. The eyelashes, I think I only own one other pair from Rem Beauty. I like this pair a lot better. This is the prettiest pair that I have from them. Just save yourself some time, some money, go with Ardell. Easier to get a hold of. So there we have it, you guys. That was my full face of testing on new makeup. It's been a while since I've done this. So I was really excited just to play with some new makeup, give my thoughts, do a little bit of trash talk, all that good stuff. Thank you guys so much for watching and thank you so much for being subscribed to my channel. I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye, guys. Have a good one.


I have a dream that little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, welcome and thank you for joining Sister Power. Our topic for this episode is I Have a Dream, celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963 in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights, delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement. Today we will discuss his voice, his teachings, his love for humanity with Sister Power VIP guest, artist Kimberly Keyes. Hi Kimberly, my dear friend. Finally we've made it. Yes we did. Good. Thank you for coming on Sister Power. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, I really started out totally different field. Currently I do work in education and I also am an artist. So I would probably have to go back to when I went back to school in my late 20s and got my education. I studied psychology and I also went and got a master's in business administration. So from there I worked in business and I taught for many years and then I also moved back to Hawaii. Our family came back in 2009 and I'm still in education, but I started work and I actually started working in art about two years ago during the Martin Luther King celebration that the NAACP held and that's when it all started. Oh, wonderful. Well, I'm just so excited about this weekend and as you can see here that you have a portrait that you've painted of Dr. Martin Luther King. Yes I did. Tell us about the inspirations behind your artwork. Well, my inspiration really started with Martin Luther King. When we had our celebration about two years ago, the MLK Gala, I wanted to do something for the silent auction and so it was because of the Martin Luther King Gala that really woke me up into developing my talent and doing something for the silent auction. So I created a portrait of President Barack Obama and I had no idea what the reception would be for this and it went up for auction and someone actually bought it and I was thrilled and excited and from then on I just continued painting because it's just been a passion for me and I think it's a calling that God has given me and he started it off with the MLK Gala. Well, we have a painting here with President Barack Obama and Dr. King and this happens to be my personal painting which is just absolutely fabulous. Well let's go back a little bit about the history of Dr. Martin Luther King and let's talk about Rosa Park and all she wanted to do was have a seat and it's just started from there. She wanted to have a seat and Rosa Park rode at the front of a Montgomery Alabama bus on the day of the Supreme's Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effort. Just tell me your viewpoints on Rosa Parks. Well Rosa Parks, she was already involved with the NAACP from what I understand. She was a secretary for NAACP and there was a particular driver of the bus that she did not want to ride with because she had gotten off his bus one time because she was told she needed to enter the back side of the bus. Well she got outside and as she was going to the back side of the bus he took off and she said never again I'm not going to ride with this man again.  So she's riding on the bus and she happens to see it's the same bus driver she saw and she was already upset about that and then so when someone came over white person to tell her to give up her seat she simply refused and that's where you know it all began and I greatly admire her for her courage and standing up for I will not get up off of this out of my seat I am not going to do it and she didn't. You know I think this is so important for the young generation to really know you know where we came from and how far we've come and as Oprah said on the show that she gave that great speech she brought up Rosa Parks name regarding Reese Taylor and I think Rosa Parks was the one to investigate the rape she was raped by six white men and she just passed away not long ago and ninety-some years old so history is just moving forward constantly and I think that this is very important for the generation to know because you do teach the young kids about our history and so talk more about the NAACP. Okay so well with the NAACP I'm executive chairperson for the youth I'm sorry for community relations okay there's another organization that I work for the youth and that's Lynx Incorporated and I'm the chairperson for the youth and also with my church I work with the youth so what I begin to do was start building this gallery so I can try to build awareness for culture for the children to learn about their history and mainly to learn about fine art and what it's like to to see it experience and even do it you know in workshops okay well let's view some of your artwork you you did bring a few pieces with you yes I did several pieces with you this is wonderful and the first piece you're going to talk about yeah so what I did is I made some mini bios based on the portraits that I have my portraits kind of come and go because if someone buys it or something happened I have to kind of replenish so I needed to replenish Martin Luther King so I'm very very happy that I was able to do that and I made many bios on each one of my portraits so and it's hard to put them on a little tiny card that I wanted to make them short and small especially as people go through and view the portraits and then they can also go and study more about each person but it's mainly to encourage the children and to just give them to something to think about and something to continue to learn about well Martin Luther King was a son of a preacher man yes he was and he was a minister as well yes he was and just my my father for instance the day that they aired him giving that speech I have a dream I was in my teens that was such a powerful powerful speech and what I remember and I would call from it is when he said we're free we're free thank god almighty we're free at last that really resonated with me and so you did this painting how long did it take you to paint Martin Luther King oh I think I worked on it continuously for about a week one week yeah continuously I'm talking day and night and I chose this particular pose because of the motion in his eyes and him pointing out you know during his speech and it just it just captured me and I said you know this is the pose that I wanted to do for him oh that's wonderful and what is your next painting did you want to say elaborate a little more about your painting let's see well I just want to say as far as Martin Luther King what I have on to tell the children you know as they go through is to just let them know that his legacy is to secure progress on civil rights united states and also days after his assassination that's when they passed the civil rights act of 1968 1968 and today it was not sassinated and hopefully he would you know his legacy doesn't live it would be 89 years old and that's still 89 years young yeah that's not very old no not today not today okay all right so the civil rights movement and we have the non-violent social change the center he has a center for non-violent social change and I didn't bring anything on that but it does you know it is part of his legacy yes and you know what he has left with us and it's just a wonderful thing so I have portraits that I brought that's gonna start with Martin Luther King and then I'd like to just work out my way through other people that have contributed to the civil rights movement we would love to see that okay yes every take you from this journey all right I'm excited about this journey so what I did was I went to my gallery because my gallery has several all kinds of people from different backgrounds different categories so I went and picked a few and picked a few of my favorites that does have to do with civil rights one of my very very favorites that I love is Frederick Douglass oh take tell us a little bit about Frederick Douglass oh well this is a history lesson I love that Fred this is a history lesson for first off well for Frederick Douglass okay he was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey and he lived February 18th through February 20th 1895 he was a social reformer about abolitionist orator writer and statesman and he's really dear to my heart because I went to visit his home in Virginia and it was it just really really touched my heart to actually see how he lived to be able to go into his different rooms where he wrote where he slept where he ate he was just a magnificent man he escaped slavery as you know and so what he has in his living room is he has separating the living room and another room he has the balls and chains on his curtains to remind himself where he came from so he will never ever forget and this fabulous beautiful home on top of the hill so that really touched me too oh my goodness so he escaped slavery and went on to become one of the most prominent leaders to fight the end of slavery and abolition movement led to the passage of the 13th amendment so that was something that was very important and he also advocated for women's suffrage as well you know and he was the first African-American to be appointed as U.S. Marshall and was also appointed the U.S. minister to Haiti in 1889 wow he's also special to me because he's one of my very first paintings this is your first he's one of my very very first paintings and when he appeared on this paper it just threw me a back the emotions on his face what he must be thinking it just really captured me so I'm just I'm so much in awe of that yeah it's beautiful absolutely so how long have you been painting I've actually been doing this for about two years straight now this is going into my second year two years yes yes so this is all new to me it doesn't look like that at all my goodness thank you I mean how you perfected his eyes and the hair and his beard I think it's a very spiritual thing I really I do not think that it is me it's coming it's through me that God is working through me and how this appears on the paper God is good that is good absolutely all right and what people should know about the civil rights movement is blacks and whites together when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his speech on that day you would see people that were locking arms together the late great Lena Horne yes and Sidney Portier and Harry Belafonte so everyone is all about peace this is what people want peace and unity peace and unity yes all right carry us on through your journey all right so the next person that I have is another favorite all right well what we're going to do we're going to come back and we're going to take a break okay with Kimberly Keys and join us for I Have a Dream celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King for every game day a sign had designated driver what big eyes you have she said what are you doing research says reading from birth accelerates our baby's brain development push read aloud 15 minutes every child every parent every day welcome back to sister power I have a dream celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King and this is Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday that's coming up Monday and I'm so happy that all across the world people are celebrating Martin Luther King day before I go any further artist Kimberly Keys I want to congratulate you and I did read congratulations on showcasing two paintings one of president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama which will be presented to hang at the Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology in Atlanta Georgia congratulations what an accomplishment for an artist who's been painting for two years well I don't know what to say about that but I'm absolutely thrilled about that I think that that's what this is all about sharing what my gift is and I hope those children enjoy it and I hope that maybe someday the president and first lady will see some of my work that's on the wall too and enjoy it as well oh they will well you are taking us on a journey with your fabulous artwork and who are we is this Harriet Tubman absolutely oh Harriet Tubman tell us a little bit about Harriet Tubman well first of all Harriet Tubman we did have her we did have her presented at the African-American Film Festival last year yes and we had a wonderful film about her and she also touched many hearts and one of the things that really makes it all work for me as an artist is that when people came out of the room they were so touched by the story of Harriet Tubman and then they see the painting and I had one woman she just broke out in tears and she's crying as she's looking at the painting well this what people understand now is the struggle that African-Americans went through and the history that she was able to put her life on the line and take this from freedom that's right take this from slavery to freedom I should say that's right that's right and so if I can say a little bit about Harriet Tubman now she was born Araminta Brass she was born 1822 we don't have the exact date but 1822 and died March 10th 1913 she was an abolitionist human humanitarian an armed scout and a spy for the U.S. Army during the civil war so the legacy that she leaves with us is of course we know she was born into slavery she escaped and made 13 missions to save other slaves and she used a network called the underground railroad where there were safe houses and places that people can go and work their way into freedom she later helped in another abolitionist his name was John Brown and she helped recruit people for his cause and that was to raid Harper's Ferry in the post-war era okay well let's move on to the next painting oh yes strong and fierce the next one that I do have he's also another very beginning painting very beginning this is W. E. B. DuBlois oh yes and he's one of my probably maybe my third or fourth and he was born William Edgar Burghardt and his birthday is February 23rd 1868 through August 27th 1963 so he was an American sociologist he was a historian civil rights activist pan-africanist author writer and editor author and yeah and so his legacy is he was the first african-american to earn a PhD from Harvard very first yes he was yes and he also laid the foundation for the african-american struggle for equal rights so he's there I mean from the very very beginning he also co-founded the NAACP and he was the editor for the the newsletter for the NAACP as well okay and that was in 1909 so he wrote five novels three autobiographies and he's a leading writer of his lifetime during that time period he was also the voice for the black community for a lot of young african-americans so he was a huge contribution another trailblazer all right and let's see who you okay well this is what I love it I love this too and so we remind people that this weekend is dr. Martin Luther King's birthday absolutely this weekend is his birthday and we do have the MLK gala okay and that's coming up saturday january 13th and it's going to be at the um pomacai ballrooms at dole cannery that's wonderful you know years ago when the african-american association was formed we had the honor to have martin luther king the third as our speaker and that was such an honor to have him there it's just wonderful so i'm so glad that this is moving forward and i see one of my favorites is Nina Simone she's one of my favorites too oh i have another strong black woman yes Nina Simone now did you know that she was born unice kathleen wayman the only reason why i know that is because the honey blue african-american uh the honey blue african-american film festival the committee we honored her a few years ago Nina Simone just a fierce woman yes and i was there and that was a wonderful presentation and i truly honored that's why i painted her gorgeous oh thank you yes and so uh american singer songwriter wonderful pianist yes classical pianist um arranger and civil rights activist so the legacy that nina leaves with us as she was known as the voice of civil rights movement she wrote missus mississippi god damn in response to the 1963 assassination of medgar evers and the birmingham uh church bombing which killed the four little girls uh yeah yeah and so she was a very strong um uh civil rights activists and she did so many things um towards the cause of civil rights well she's you know one of the women that i so admire because we're women as women we're still you know fortunately head we still want to be respected and listen to so she did break ground before it was a really time to break ground yes she did yeah all right so who do we have next well well well who do we have next this one has a little story to it and i'll try to be quick but this is miss angela davis and angela davis um this one's very special to me because she happened to sign this for me oh i see yeah i think it's 2016 and she was visiting here in honolulu she was visiting here in honolulu her second time a dear friend of mine surprised me and seated me right next to her and i look up and there she is and i happen to have that painting thinking hey if i see her maybe she'll sign it and i was right next to her and she signed it and so it was a wonderful experience um so this of course is absolutely one of my favorite paintings as well of course that's a masterpiece because you have the signature of angela davis and just tell us a little bit about angela davis well now she was born angela evan davis born january 26 1944 she's a political activist and academic and an author and so she did come out to honolulu and speak to us we had a wonderful time um her legacy leaves us there's so much to talk about but just to keep it as a mini bio um she has addressed civil and women's rights poverty and peace health care and prison reform 1970 her activism and prisoners rights led to her arrest and trial on charges of kidnapping conspiracy and murder her imprisonment inspired the international free angela movement her case became the symbol of the abusive power of the criminal justice system against minorities and she was acquitted in 1972 yeah i just remember all that time yes this is so wonderful that you were able to bring some of your artwork kimberley and unfortunately we have to close but i want the people to know the keys to art is a large traveling art gallery focusing on various themes including hawaiian culture and promoting black history you did definitely gave us a black history lesson so to end of this note 10 seconds or less please let the people know on monday where to go at what time and where we to meet for the parade and rally oh yes so that's very exciting we're having the parade in the rally january 15th and um the parade is going to start at magic island and it goes all the way through to capulani park and the parade starts at nine o'clock all the festivities start at nine o'clock so i will have my gallery i'll have a huge white tent there if we're able to get that thing up because i just got it so i can get it together and uh we'll have an art gallery and we'll have lots of paintings and prints to sell well thank you well thank you for spending part of your day with us and we appreciate you joining sister to power and thank you kimberley happy martin with the king day