A strange whistle pierced the Tulsa night at 5 a.m. June 1, 1921. A white mob poured into the Greenwood District, home of one of the nation’s most affluent African American communities. By noon of the same day, the homes, businesses and churches dubbed “Black Wall Street” by Booker T. Washington were reduced to rubble […]
book
Posted inArts & Culture
End times
Into Captivity They Will Go is about the end of the modern world — not as a reality but as a concept, a promise. It is about the intoxicating bigness of ideas like rapture, tribulation, apocalypse and prophecies that have long seemed so immediate despite one century passing uneventfully into another and another and another. […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Going underground
Oklahoma City’s abandoned underground catacombs built by Chinese immigrants remain the most underappreciated wonder of local urban lore, but Mary Anna Evans is taking readers down into the depths for the latest archaeological mystery novel in her Faye Longchamp-Mantooth series that follows the exploits of an archeologist crime fighter. Catacombs begins with an explosion in […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Homeward bound
Native Americans stormed the beaches of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to claim the notorious prison for the “Indians of all tribes.” For nineteen months, the shuttered federal facilities were reopened by the activists and turned into homes. They hoped to force the U.S. government to make good on the Treaty of Ft. Laramie that promised […]
Posted inArts & Culture
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.
Posted inArts & Culture
New book Becoming Brave tells the story behind marriage equality in Oklahoma
Both Sharon and Mary Bishop-Baldwin worked for Tulsa World during their yearslong legal battle.
Posted inArts & Culture
Book celebrates ’60s big-screen sexpot, Oklahoma City native Pamela Tiffin
“She was a bona fide leading lady of the ’60s and arguably one of the most beautiful and talented of all the actresses I spoke with over the years,” said the Big Apple-based Lisanti.
Posted inArts & Culture
Andy Warriorhol
“They say, ‘You don’t love America, man; you hate it so much.’ I’m like, ‘Au contraire, player; I love America so much I loved it even before it was called America!”
Posted inArts & Culture
OKC’s past and present explored in new book
Lou Berney will be signing copies of his book today.
Posted inArts & Culture
“Don’t worry; I didn’t print anything that would embarrass my mom,” joked Benton. “She approved them all.”
“Don’t worry; I didn’t print anything that would embarrass my mom,” joked Benton. “She approved them all.”