In the days preceding our national celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., both Oklahoma and the country at large demonstrated that wide swaths of our society require an emergency history lesson. Unfettered racism and enthusiastic ill was the leit motif for the entire week. When University of Oklahoma student and member […]
Levi Pettit
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Open minds
Anastasia Pittman did not ask for her Mother of Reconciliation label, but she certainly owned it. Pittman was a longtime state representative for majority African-American District 99 in Oklahoma City before her 2014 election to the state senate for District 48. She reached her term limit at the end of the most recent legislative session. […]