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#firstlinefridays “Some years back, a magazine profiled my transformation from James Plummer Jr., a nerdy kid from some of America‘s most deeply scarred urban ghettos, to Hakeem Oluseyi, sole Black physicist inside the Science Mission Directorate at NASA.” — Sounds cool to me I‘ll dig in! Lol, I was nerdy and wanted to be a pediatrician until I didn‘t have a lab partner junior year of hs and was introduced to the Bunsen burner‘s invisible flame!😅

Fascinating memoir abt a genius astrophysicist and all he had to overcome. Oluseyi spends a great deal of time on his childhood; it reads as though he is coming to terms with his life through the writing process and is powerful for that. Descriptions of the undereducated adults in his childhood orbit and the wary curiosity through which they viewed his intelligence made me ache for the loneliness Oluseyi must have felt before finding his mentors.