“It’s about trust and relationships between me, the teachers and the students,” Principal Ayala concluded. “That’s what makes this work.”
civil rights
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Film documents Oklahoma civil rights movement
A new film about the Oklahoma City sit-in campaign premieres Saturday.
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Scholar, Edmond native releases book on civil rights movement
Civil rights groups have seldom worked together since 1974
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Edelman, champion of civil rights, to speak at OCU
Marian Wright Edelman, a civil rights activist, will speak in the Distinguished Speakers Series for Oklahoma City University.
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Letters to the editor: Sept. 17, 2014
To suggest the actions of ISIS represent the views of all Muslims is like suggesting Westboro Baptist Church speaks for all Christians or that the KKK represents all white people.
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Big hurt
Photo by Mark Hancock The husband and father (pictured) also never anticipated he’d be at the center of a constitutional fight over free speech and a potentially unconstitutional city ordinance. Martin, considered a big man by any standard at 6 feet 2 inches tall and 485 pounds, arranged for a security team to work a […]
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‘It ignited the country’
The 7-year-old sat beside 12 other members of the NAACP Youth Council at the lunch counter of a downtown Katz Drug Store, 200 W. Main St. and Robinson Ave., on Aug. 20, 1958. They waited to be served. “A lot of kids’ parents wouldn’t let them go. When I look back on it, it was […]
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A closer look
Robin Howard died June 23 from pneumonia caused by blunt force trauma to the chest. The manner of death was ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner. The 54-year-old Howard was arrested on June 19 after officers attempted to initiate a traffic stop, at which point Howard allegedly led them on a short vehicle […]
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Wedding bell blues
Today, Mary Bishop and Sharon Baldwin are still fighting the state to make their 15-year relationship official in the eyes of the law. Their suit challenging Oklahoma’s voter-approved 2004 state constitution amendment barring same-sex marriage continues to wind its way through the federal courts. “Sharon and I are suing for the right to marry,” Bishop […]
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Brace for ‘Impact’
As a retired teacher, Stephney-Roberson knows firsthand how difficult it is to obtain material about Oklahoma’s black history. “During my years of teaching, I tried to find tools to use, but it was a topic that we were unable to acquire much information on,” she said. Impact highlights the men and women who played pivotal […]