1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scene from the HBO series Lovecraft Country Published 10/14/2020 | Reading Time 3 mins 16 secs By Autumn Brown, Senior Editor I just finished the most recent Lovecraft […]
Raging, entitled mania: The White men’s luxury.
#MeToo, Tulsa #BelieveWomen
Sexual assault offenders can be our friends, families, neighbors, and even well-known local public figures who are self-proclaimed activists.
Catching up with A.P. Brantley: Race and Professional Sports
Unless you have been sleeping under a rock, you know the racial socio-political climate sweeping the globe. Akin to Emmett Till’s murder, a catalyst for the worldwide Civil Rights Movement, George Floyd’s killing by Minnesota police on May 25, 2020, sparked outrage globally.
Mid-Del School Teacher Caught in Another Racist Scandal
“Sunday afternoon, as I packed and prepared to leave Tulsa, Oklahoma, I fully intended on engaging in radical self-care while binge-watching 90-day fiance. Instead, when I opened my Facebook application, I had been tagged in a post in which YET ANOTHER Mid-Del public school teacher, Kemper Rigg, was caught spewing racial rhetoric toward the black community.”
Clara Luper Legacy Committee Advocates in Washington D.C.
What Luper did with her students was revolutionary. Leveraging her role as an educator, she incorporated activism into her teaching, though the efforts here in Oklahoma remain invisible and overshadowed by the Greensboro sit-ins.
How Braeden Anderson squeezed a damp rag into success
Born to a single mother raising 6 Black sons, Braeden recalls the racial tensions he experienced growing up in Canada. Okotoks, Alberta, a town of 20,000 citizens, had only two Black families. It makes sense why representation matters so much to Braeden.
White Okla. teacher uses n-word multiple times during a social studies class
It saddens me to know that school district administrators dropped the ball in handling teacher, Mary Foote, and her use of the N-word in her 8th grade Social Studies class at Kerr Middle School — a feeder school for Del City.
