RJ Young knows Tulsa. He attended Booker T. Washington and Memorial high schools, graduated from the University of Tulsa and returned to his hometown after graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. With a master’s degree in professional writing in hand and a bustling self-made business analyzing college football for Fox Sports, and on his own social media channels, Young bought his first home in 2019 — 98 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre. In his latest book, “Requiem for the Massacre,” Young presents a history of Black economic success in Greenwood and how white Tulsans perpetuated and subsequently covered up the community’s destruction. He synthesizes sources from the past 100-plus years to tell a big-picture story about the destruction’s effects rippling through generations of Black Tulsans, reports on Race Massacre Centennial events in real-time and interweaves relevant memoir from his life. Young met with TulsaPeople at Fulton Street Books and Coffee ahead of the book’s Nov. 1 release. From our November issue. Read the interview at TulsaPeople.com (link in bio).