Thank you to The Washington Post for making her art special. The rest of the media needs to embrace her adn come to understand how she feels. March 21, 2016
By Michael Cavna
Just last month, (click here) Akilah Johnson was “surprised and overwhelmed” when she learned that she was a national finalist in the “Doodle 4 Google” contest for grad,e-schoolers.
Imagine how she feels now.
Akilah,
a sophomore at Eastern Senior High School in Northeast Washington, has
just been named Google’s big winner in the national contest, topping the
53 state and territory champions, whose work had been culled from about
100,000 student entries.
“It is really overwhelming,”
Akilah tells The Post’s Comic Riffs, minutes after receiving the news
Monday during a ceremony at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
“I
was so excited, I started crying,” Akilah says. “I didn’t even look at
anybody — I was just looking at the framed copy [of the Doodle] they
gave me.”
Akilah
is the contest’s first winner from Washington, as D.C. was not eligible
to enter the states-only competition in past years. (The Post’s Comic
Riffs had joined the chorus of voices urging that the District be
included.)...
