My screen is black

Hello Bakersacres1971,

Screen curtains may have been enabled on accident. You might try triple-tapping with three fingers on the screen.

If VoiceOver is on and the screen is black, but you can still use the device by pressing volume up and volume down, you may have screen curtain on. Try triple-tapping using three fingers on the device display to turn off screen curtain. Or connect the device to iTunes (see above).

iPad: Configuring accessibility features (including VoiceOver and Zoom)

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4064

Cheers,

Allen

First thing to try is to reset your device. Press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the device restart. See if that fixes your problem.