'UMI PERKINS: The Breach

December 26, 2016 Hawaiʻi Review

Artwork: Rebecca Pyle, Red Blue Green (Oppenheimer's Cottage, Los Alamos), oil on canvas, 32 x 32, 2014 — Artwork: Rebecca Pyle, *Red Blue Green (Oppenheimer's Cottage, Los Alamos)*, oil on canvas, 32 x 32, 2014

"The air hung cool but heavy at Kapālama in the early evening. The muted sound of a hundred and fifty voices lilted through the dense mist and over the waves to a hundred thousand radios. The campus sat, regally, on a mountainside, as a general surveying the common people on the plains below."

EMEKA CHINAGOROM: Now That You Are Black In America

December 12, 2016 Hawaiʻi Review

"We still do not understand most of it and we rely on your Uncle Benji to explain sometimes. He says there is nothing happening now that did not happen when he was there as a student. I cannot imagine what it feels like being so young and finding yourself in a place where you are suddenly black before anything else. Especially in a place where it is the worst thing you can be."