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TheUC San Diego Bookstore is the place on campus to buy, rent, reserve, sell back, or return textbooks. Prices are competitive, and some books are available in electronic format (eBooks).

"Watchmen" (2019), episode 1, begins with a little boy in a movie theater, watching a silent Western. "There will be no mob justice today. TRUST IN THE LAW," says the sheriff. A siren goes off, and the boy wanders outside into a nightmare.

Planes are swooping down from overhead. Molotov cocktails are being hurled into stores. Buildings are on fire. Screaming mothers are fleeing with children in their arms. Men are being dragged behind pickup trucks.

John Legend, appearing with Stacey Abrams, will be headlining a nationally televised Monday event in the city's ONEOK ballfield: tickets were gone an hour after they were posted on May 20. An Oklahoma hip-hop collective is releasing "Fire in Little Africa," a multimedia project about the massacre, through the Motown label.

"Lovecraft Country" is a fantasy. But there's nothing fantastic about the premise of someone reliving Tulsa. Viola Fletcher, 107, who testified before the House of Representatives on May 19, relives it every day.

"I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire, I still see Black business being burned, I still hear airplanes flying overhead," said Fletcher, who was 7 at the time. "I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot. I will not. And other survivors do not. And our descendants do not."

It was a 2014 article in the Atlantic, "The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, that introduced "Watchmen" creator Damon Lindelof to the tragic history of Tulsa, and inspired him to make it his plot pivot.

What happened in Tulsa? We may never know the whole truth. Even today, there is dispute about how many people died (the official count at the time was 36; it was certainly many hundreds), whether the planes dropped turpentine bombs, even about the incident that sparked the whole catastrophe.

Things escalated quickly. White newspapers wrote lurid accounts of the incident, which fanned lynch fever. On May 31, Rowland was put in a special jail cell in the Tulsa County Courthouse for safety. In Greenwood, Black World War I veterans mustered, offering to help the authorities who were guarding the jail. They were twice refused. Meanwhile, white residents, seeing Black men armed and fearing an "uprising," came on the scene bearing guns. A shot was fired. And all hell broke loose.

"Our mother always told us the mob broke all her Caruso records," Hooker recalled, many decades later. "They took the food and dumped it in the mud and then they came back and took her nice flaky biscuits out of the oven and dumped them out on the dirt."

Local law enforcement and the Klan were both implicated in the violence, which destroyed 191 businesses and left about 10,000 people homeless. In the days that followed, 6,000 Greenwood residents were detained in internment centers; many of them were rounded up by authorities and required to carry ID cards.

Place, to say the least, has her work cut out for her. As executive director of the Tulsa museum, she has a mandate, and sincere desire, to showcase the good stuff: The oil boom, the Tulsa Drillers, Garth Brooks. But there is also this.

"It is still very much a segregated community," Place said. "The railroad tracks still divide North Tulsa, where Greenwood was located, and which continues to be predominantly African American. South of the tracks is the Tulsa business district, which is predominantly white."

Inside was a cache of historical photos. "They reminded me of Hiroshima," she said. "I had never seen bodies burned beyond recognition. I had never seen bodies pulled behind trucks, or piled on top of trucks."

The only good news about the events of 1921 is that the residents of Greenwood didn't accept defeat. "Immediately, those who could began to rebuild, despite all kinds of obstacles," Place said. By 1926, Greenwood was a thriving community again: a hub for jazz, a meeting place for the National Negro Business League.

As soon as residents could do business elsewhere, the web of interdependence that kept the neighborhood together began to fray. Today, much of Greenwood is now the Tulsa campus of Oklahoma State University.

"There continue to be many Tulsans who don't want to talk about this story at all," Place said. "They say, 'Why do we have to talk about it? It's a bad part of our history. It's behind us.' It's the same kind of conversation that's happening all over the country."

Some, like Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, fear that teaching America's shortcomings as well as its strengths will cause students to hate their country. That's why he advocates the banning of "critical race theory" in the classroom (he was recently ousted from the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, of which Place is a member).

"I think the good and the bad, the virtues and the vices, are interwoven," he said. "Because we have erased domestic terror and mob violence from our official narratives of the U.S., it's difficult for us to see that these things were much more commonplace than we like to think."

Having a more honest, nuanced discussion about American history doesn't mean banishing Washington and Lincoln to the broom closet. But it may mean taking a closer look at some of our national myths. And banishing our habit of papering over the bad stuff.

Jim Beckerman is an entertainment and culture reporter for NorthJersey.com. For unlimited access to his insightful reports about how you spend your leisure time, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.

A text box is an object you can add to your document that lets you put and type text anywhere in your file. Text boxes can be useful for drawing attention to specific text and can also be helpful when you need to move text around in your document.

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Textbooks are vanishing from our consciousness, edged out by videos. How much time did you spend reading a book today? How much time watching videos? Should we be concerned? How should we respond in academia and in our professional lives?

With instant, easy, and free access to high quality video content at our fingertips, we live in a learner's paradise. Surprisingly, access to top quality books is nowhere as easy, and almost never free, notwithstanding exciting efforts at the elementary levels. Although it fills in as the perfect cure for our limited attention spans, there is no doubt that the video adds a completely new dimension to the learning process. I have watched mathematics videos where concepts are illustrated with truly beautiful visualisations and animations, in ways that the best of classical textbooks could never match, simply because the equivalent in static images would consume too much space.

In theory, one could say the video is a superset, as the book's text could be narrated anyway, and the figures could only be enhanced, but reality is different. There's no debate about illustrations - saying something as simple as "this triangle" is a lot more convoluted in a book. However, the book's text leads to a more nuanced comparison. A good video presentation indeed has the potential to make things easier to understand - a complicated equation can be easily animated for more intuitive understanding. Yet, there just isn't enough time to cover the entire depth and breadth of text carefully put together by the book's author. To make things worse, the laws of the universe have determined that good and impactful videos need to be no more than 10 minutes long! This means, of course, that a lot of exciting digressions, thought-provoking open questions, and glimpses into advanced topics, would necessarily be edited out.

Is the huge effort that goes into the writing of a textbook still worth it? Or should authors shift focus to other media? In the good old days, the reading of a book would be interspersed by a little bit of leisurely personal exploration and wonder, book still in hand. In contrast, the video, in spite of the pause button, may be rushing us headlong towards "completion". The algorithms conspire to serve the next video, and life doesn't pause for contemplation. Could it be that the book's format, in some small way, encouraged us to ask "Why?" mid-way through a chapter, whereas the video is causing us to move on with just a "Wow!"? Could the absence of easy visualisation have led people to try filling up the gaps in their own heads, developing some critical skills in the process? Maybe we need to allow some time for the modern modes of engagement to evolve and incorporate the best of all worlds.

The 2009 EPA report indicated that while 33% or so of books were recovered from the waste stream (and recycled?), about 640,000 tons went to landfills annually, with books making 0.4% of all this waste.

Well, this data is outdated and might not be entirely relevant today. Still, if we compare the chart mentioned above with the most recent one that depicts the management of non-packaging paper, we can see that the trend must have remained:

Looking at a smaller region, a survey of 570 K-12 schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota found that 37% of them store old and damaged books in the school because they do not know what to do with them. The other thousands of textbooks from K-12 schools and higher education are dumped into landfills. Spaces in buildings and landfills are both being abused by the mass amounts of discarded old school textbooks.

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