Quraysh Ali Lansana is the director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, part of a nationwide, community-based initiative to 'plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism.' He is also an author of 22 books in poetry, nonfiction, children's literature and literary anthologies. Below are highlights from an interview with The Conversation. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. Quraysh Ali Lansana: I am a historian and a political junkie. I think that my love for history and connecting - I call it the tenuous tether of yesterday and today ' actually was born in my small town, Enid, Oklahoma. I grew up in a lower-working-class Black, very deeply segregated town where I did not learn much in K-12 education about Black history. Quraysh Ali Lansana: I attended the University of Oklahoma and studied print and broadcast journalism and...
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