Defeating Disparity
Oklahoma City’s Point in Time Count shows that the city’s Black population is disproportionately affected by homelessness.
Letter to the editor 7/29/2020
After breaking my leg in high school, I missed several days of classes for doctors’ appointments. Despite having notes from doctors, I was dismissed from school for too many absences. Rather than walk away defeated, I found a school that accommodated my needs. If it wasn’t for Insight School of Oklahoma, I wouldn’t have been…
Chicken-Fried News: Masked mandate
Once Tulsa began talking seriously about implementing an indoor masking policy in public places, it was only a matter of time before Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt decided to keep pace with his BFF, Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum. But while hospital beds were filling to capacity in intensive care units across the metro and Integris…
Free Will Astrology: week of August 6
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her book *Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones*, Stephanie Rose Bird reports that among early African Americans, there were specialists who spoke the language of trees. These patient magicians developed intimate relationships with individual trees, learning their moods and rhythms, and even exchanging non-verbal information with them. Trees imparted wisdom about…
OKG Lifestyle: Naoma Serna-Zahn
EAT Spicy Miso with extra chili bomb from Gorō Ramen READ Untamed by Glennon Doyle and Buy Yourself the F*cking Lillies by Tara Schuster WATCH Chef’s Table on Netflix — uber inspiring LISTEN 99% Invisible podcast or any other Radiotopia podcasts! LOVE traveling, Malbec, and iced coffee EXPERIENCE Porch hangs with friends and dogs!
Cannabis briefs
Descheduling cannabis On a broader scale, federal legalization or full decriminalization has not come to fruition as many expected during this first term. No mention has been made by President Donald Trump of descheduling cannabis, which remains on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Schedule 1 substance list. In a clip posted online last month by reporter…
ARTIST FEATURE: GRPFLY
OKG sat down with Vernon Deas, founder of GRPFLY, OKC’s premier apparel company, to talk about what inspires his designs. What is the historical reference of GRPFLY? The word GRPFLY, aka Group Fly, is a group of people elevating to a higher destination. We started our brand in 2008. We used inspiration from the Tuskegee…
New York Times crossword August 2
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Chicken-Fried News: COVID spotting
In an announcement that took absolutely no one by surprise, Gov. Kevin Stitt said he has tested positive for COVID-19. Once the initial tsunami of laugh reacts subsided, the question on everyones’ minds became, “Where did he contract it?” Since Stitt has been traveling the state since the first case was announced, the best answer…
Analog flashback
John Lewis had always loved vintage audiovisual equipment and analog music formats. Five years ago, he finally gave in to his desire and bought a Pioneer 707 reel-to-reel tape player from Charlie’s Records in the Donnay Building on Classen Circle. He was hooked. “Uncompressed music on albums and tapes just sounds better than the digitized…
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…
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…
