Tuesday 21 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: civil rights
Thank you, Ms. Luper
Clara Luper, 'Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,' died Wednesday at age 88
Don't discriminate
Letters to the Editor
Hope Thomas
The Marriage Equality Rights for Oklahoma movement was launched to give hope and accomplish civil equality rights to the many people in this state oppressed by being discriminated against for sexual orientation. It is a movement to bring awareness on gay discrimination to all communities and also say it’s never too early or late to make a change.
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Less hip-hop, more history.
Documentary
Matt Carney
One of those bywords of documentary filmmaking, a film’s objectivity often gets debated more vigorously than its merit or artistry.
The color of law
The battle of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher in Oklahoma helped fuel the national civil rights movement.
News
Tricia Pemberton
The seven steps to the “colored” chair were just seven more humiliations to be endured in Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher’s long fight toward freedom.
Action precedes Jackson
Rev. Jesse Jackson's visit to OKC high school follows brief student scuffle.
News
Gazette staff
The Rev. Jesse Jackson told students at Douglass High School this morning that they can aspire to be anything in life, but his words of inspiration might have come a few hours too late for a group of youths at the Oklahoma City school.
Brace for 'Impact'
A retired teacher compiles Oklahoma’s black history.
Nonfiction
Mia Cantu
Inspired by a dearth of black history education in the Sooner State, Rochelle Stephney-Roberson wrote her first book, Impact: Blacks in Oklahoma History. Published last fall, the textbook has been approved by the state Department of Education for use in state high schools.
Wedding bell blues
A Tulsa same-sex couple hopes their fight for marriage equality will make it to the U.S. 10th Circuit.
News
Clifton Adcock
Nearly seven and a half years ago, a Tulsa couple decided to file a lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma after the government decided to prevent them from becoming married.
A closer look
The death of an OKC man while in police custody has drawn the attention of the FBI.
News
Clifton Adcock
The FBI has been brought in to investigate the case of a man who died while in police custody, according to the man’s family’s attorney.
