It has been 25 years since Oklahoma City’s worst day, and though we have forged onward into the future, it has left a lasting mark. That mark could have made us afraid and suspicious of change; instead, we look forward to progress and hold the courage of so many that day as a standard to […]
Oklahoma City Bombing
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40 years: Ruby headlines
Oklahoma Gazette debuted in October 1979 as a “journal of contributions to Oklahoma’s quality of life.” It was 12 pages under the guidance of publisher Bill Bleakley, editor Cynthia Emrick, managing editor Mary R. Grace and businesses manager Stephanie Emrick. Stories appeared without a byline in the first issue, but many of them dealt with […]
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Commentary: ‘Open-carry hate’
This month, as Oklahoma City observed the 24th anniversary of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, it became clear that disinformation about this mass murder has thrived around us. As the city mourned April 19, Twitter users that we used to call fringe-dwellers until their malevolence was mainstreamed were out in full force. A […]
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Hate history
Oklahoma residents woke up to find racist, neo-Nazi, white nationalist graffiti twice in the last month. Additionally, posters and stickers of a “white identity” organization have been found — and removed — from various parts of the state, particularly at universities and high-traffic locations. But extreme far-right ideologies are nothing new, and they are actually […]
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Katt Williams speaks on Oklahoma, Russell Westbrook and celebrity in politics ahead of three shows in Norman
Williams performs Friday-Saturday at Riverwind Casino.
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OKC Memorial Marathon imbues competitive running with a sense of mission
“Oklahoma City as a whole has embraced the race, from the mayor to the city council, the police, fire, EMSA and the medical community,” Watkins said.
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Play ball
“The line I use and nobody has ever contested it is, ‘No city in America has come as far as fast as Oklahoma City,’” said Mayor Mick Cornett. “The ballpark was the beginning.”
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Barak Goodman’s Oklahoma City documentary explores the far-right anger that inspired Timothy McVeigh
The film screens Friday-Sunday at Oklahoma City Museum of Art and airs 8 p.m. Tuesday on PBS affiliates nationwide.
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Cover Story: Making America hate again? Hate and extremist group activity on the rise
For many people, including the 1 in 4 Oklahomans each year who marry a member of a different race, “separatist” versus “supremacist” is a distinction without a difference. Intolerance, discrimination and segregation are simply different shades of the same things: extremism and hate. Despite its avowed passivity and public disavowal of hate as a community […]
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OCU hosts summit discussing protection from cyber attacks
OCU’s School of Law is hosts its second national summit on national security law.