Police responded to Douglass shortly after 8:30 a.m. today, after a fight broke out among seven girls in a hallway. Two of the girls were arrested. “It was well before the Rev. Jesse Jackson got on campus,” said Kathleen Kennedy, executive director of communications for Oklahoma City Public Schools. “They will be disciplined according to […]
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The color of law
“We were not allowed to sit with our classmates,” Fisher said in an interview recorded before her death in 1995 at the age of 71. “They moved all the white students to the first three rows. They left three or four blank rows. Then behind that last row, a large wooden chair with a big […]
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Being Swedish, director Göran Olsson inherently carries an advantage over most American historians when it comes to documenting domestic cultural phenomena, such as the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. Because who’s more objective than a foreign visitor? Olsson makes this point early on in “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” when Swedish […]
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Don’t discriminate
People ask how they can help. Here are few ways to create changes and a positive impact for this movement: for the communities to work together to educate people on this movement is one, but to also educate people who have never really talked about or been educated on homosexuality. There are a lot of […]
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Thank you, Ms. Luper
As I ventured into my American history class the first day of my sophomore year, I was unaware that I was opening a door to a school-yearlong experience that would forever change my perspectives on the world. Sure, my fellow classmates and I were vaguely aware that Ms. Luper had some significance to our state’s […]