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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One of the newest city council members is making history and giving a voice to people who have gone without representation at the city level. Ward 2 councilman James Cooper is the first openly gay member of the council, first biracial representative, first black representative outside Ward 7 and the first teacher on the council […]
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Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic offers a socially, politically and religiously charged corrective to the European masters
The traveling exhibit runs at the museum through Sept. 10.
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A local author chronicles the lives of 10 African-American women
Ordinary Extraordinary African American Woman: The Elder was recently published by Jewell Jordan Publishing.
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African-American community unites to combat troubling infant mortality trends
“It encompasses the entire community,” McNeal said.
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Letter to the Editor: June 17, 2015
For certain, the founding fathers knew that a lie could not last forever. Nevertheless, they believed that as long as they controlled society, there was little chance of the lie being discovered.
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State’s first black senator honored 50 years after election
Melvin Porter was elected as the state’s first African-American senator in 1965 and was honored Wednesday in the chamber he served in for 22 years.
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Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2015
‘Fat ass’ The reason I feel compelled to write about the SAE incident at OU is not about what was said by these young men or the actions taken by President Boren or the university. It’s about, for lack of a more artful phrase, ignorance. I’ve read several iterations of this argument, and I feel […]
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OKC home to highest black suspension rate in nation
African American students in the Oklahoma City school system are more likely to face suspension during their high school years than students in any other district in the nation.
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Should a former sundown town apologize?
The Thirteenth Amendment made slavery illegal, and the Civil Rights Act ended legal segregation. But these laws did not come with acknowledgments that the country erred in allowing those practices and hurting its own people. The city of Edmond prohibited African-Americans by ordinance from the city limits for generations. Royce Adamson’s 1940 postcard for his […]