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Akwaeke Emezi, the New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji and their nonfiction debut DEAR SENTHURAN: A Black Spirit Memoir (Riverhead Books, on sale June 8), graces the cover of TIME Magazine’s annual Next Generation Leaders issue. This special double-issue hit newsstands all over the globe this month and focuses on an exclusive group of young artists, athletes and activists who are changing the world.
As part of their introduction to the cover story TIME Magazine said: “Akwaeke Emezi has taken off their masks the ones we all wear that grin and lie, as poet Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote. The ones that hide and shade more than our cheeks and eyes, camouflaging the traumas we’ve triumphed over. The masks we don to survive a white-supremacist world that simply can’t hold our Black, queer, trans and godly brilliance… Dear Senthuran is a brutally honest and vulnerable testimony of survival, of the rejuvenating variety that inspires and activates.”
Tulsa Race Massacre must be reckoned with to ensure a better future
Jessica A. Johnson
As the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre was observed from May 31 to June 1, I spent part of Memorial Day watching one of documentaries on PBS: “Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten.”
Like many Americans, I am learning more about this gruesome Oklahoma tragedy. Many younger adults who are fans of the popular HBO horror drama “Lovecraft Country” were introduced to this grim history of the mass slaughter in Tulsa’s Greenwood district while watching the season 1 episode “Rewind 1921.” The fact that young people gained knowledge about the Tulsa killings through pop culture reminded me of how I learned about the 1923 Rosewood massacre in Florida by viewing the film bearing its name in 1997.
Russell High School’s quick recall team deserves acknowledgement for its success at the 2021 High School National Quiz Bowl Tournament last weekend, where the team finished 19 out of 224
Russell High School’s quick recall team finished 19 out of 224 schools in the 2021 High School National Quiz Bowl Tournament, which took place on Saturday and Sunday.