Continuing a tradition seven years running, Oklahoma City’s Homeless Alliance program The Curbside Chronicle is embarking on its annual holiday season Wrap Up Homelessness campaign. Curbside Chronicle vendors will be offering an array of holiday-themed gift wrapping paper packages designed by local artists. The mission of The Curbside Chronicle, our state’s first and only street […]
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Kill the Indian, save the man
In May 2021 Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nations announced they had used ground penetrating radar to confirm unmarked graves of 215 children, later revised to 200, at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. This confirmation came on the heels of the report by the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This report, released […]
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Clearing Records
Nineteen people will be getting their legal slates wiped clean while others are invited to begin the process of clearing convictions from their records, where applicable. The Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City’s (ULOKC) Community Convening and Social Justice Department will host the inaugural Expungement Expo Aug. 21. on their campus, at 3900 N Martin […]
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Ok, so now what…
Editor’s note: When Rep. Garry Mize, R-Guthrie, learned that Oklahoma Gazette would resume printing, he extended an olive branch and offered to pen a semi-regular column in an attempt to bridge the ever-deepening political divide in our culture between the left and right. In the spirit of the true community paper we hope to morph […]
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Living history
The Black Wall Street Legacy Festival begins with the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre May 28-30. This year’s event is headlined by the last known massacre survivors: 106-year-old Lessie Benningfield “Mother” Randle; 107-year-old Viola “Mother” Fletcher; and 100-year-old Hughes Van Ellis. “The series of community-led events will take place in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood […]
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What can we say about the COVID-19 pandemic that hasn’t been said before?
On May 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fully vaccinated adults can resume indoor and outdoor activities without a mask or social distancing. After 15 months of closures, restrictions and mask mandates, Oklahoma City is already barreling towards what is hoped to be post-pandemic life. One of the first things to […]
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Group focuses on better education for African American mothers
Our modern world was not built to support a breastfeeding mother, according to Farah Antoine-Mayberry, a Certified Lactation Counselor and Birth Doula. She is among a movement of birth workers and advocates trying to transform community understanding of and behavior towards new and expectant mothers. “For a lot of moms, the goal when it comes […]
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COVER The rise of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are as American as apple pie. Just after the fires of the American Revolution had smoldered, rumors of the Bavarian Illuminati began spreading in New England. At the same time, theories of the Freemasons’ control of the country was reported due to construction techniques in Washington, D.C., which was under construction. These and […]
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COVER How to help
Homelessness is complex, but here are some immediate ways and best practices that anyone can do to help end homelessness in OKC. BE KIND People who are experiencing homelessness are people. How would you normally treat someone you pass on the street? Instead of avoiding eye contact, acknowledge one another. Smile. Say hello. Wave. Treat […]
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COVER Inequality check
Dominique Gray lost his safety net at 17. He was sleeping outside of the Ralph Ellison Library in Oklahoma City. Beneath the book drop. For a full year, he experienced homelessness until a librarian connected him to a pathway home. How had things gotten so severe? Bouts of depression, constant bullying and fights at school […]