Paradise Adventist Academy Restored After Camp Fire and More News Shorts
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May 11, 2021
In this week’s Adventist news round-up, students and staff tour the newly restored Paradise Adventist Academy that was damaged in the 2018 Camp Fire, plus more news shorts from around the world.
Paradise Adventist Academy Restored; Students and Staff Tour Campus. The 2018 Camp Fire made Paradise Adventist Academy (PAA) unsafe and unusable, reports ABC 7 KRCR. After extensive reconstruction and refurbishment, high school students, who have not stepped foot on this campus for close to two and a half years, got a peek at what they will return to next school year.
Richard Wright s novel of police brutality: The most relevant book of 2021 was written 80 years ago
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Posthumous book by Richard Wright — a frighteningly relevant story about a Black man brutalized by police
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The Bleak Prescience of Richard Wright Imani Perry
This article was published online on May 7, 2021.
Richard Wright, the father figure of African American literature, both nurtured and was rejected by his two most conspicuous heirs, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. Wright, who took Ellison under his wing in New York in the late 1930s, told his acolyte to stop copying him, that he was mimicking, not cultivating his own style. Ellison responded that he was trying to learn to write well by imitating his mentor. That was when they were close. Baldwin, too, started out as a pupil and an admirer who saw Wright poised to be the greatest Black writer in the United States.
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Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of “Native Son,” a novel whose searing critique of systemic racism made it a best-seller and inspired a generation of Black writers. In 1941, Wright wrote a new novel titled “The Man Who Lived Underground,” but publishers refused to release it, in part because the book was filled with graphic descriptions of police brutality by white officers against a Black man. His manuscript was largely forgotten until his daughter Julia Wright unearthed it at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. “The Man Who Lived Underground” was not published in the 1940s because white publishers did not want to highlight “white supremacist police violence upon a Black man because it was too close to home,” says Julia Wright. “It’s a bit like lifting the stone and not wantin