Black students, faculty and staff at University of Oklahoma matter. We’re appalled they can’t get through one single semester without a racist incident, but here we are again. Of course it has to be during Black History Month that an overly sensitive, out-of-touch white OU professor compares the phrase “OK, boomer” to using the N-word, […]
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Discomfort zone
Chelsea Handler 8 p.m. Saturday The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. criterionokc.com 405-840-5500 $48-$113 When we spoke to Chelsea Handler on Oct. 28, her Chow-Chow Bert was in the process of “peeing all over” her cousin’s house after a wildfire forced Handler to evacuate from her California home. Just before she stopped mid-thought to briefly […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Bad look
A KOCO anchor compared her black co-anchor to a baby gorilla, and she got to keep her job. But it’s 2019 and a white supremacist-enabling narcissist is running the country, so we can’t be too surprised. Despite being one of the more diverse news stations in Oklahoma City (which really isn’t saying much at all), […]
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Commentary: Ogle, lost
On July 16, as a nation processed what it meant to have a president who explicitly engaged in what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission calls “potentially unlawful conduct including insults, taunting, or ethnic epithets, such as making fun of a person’s foreign accent or comments like, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ whether made […]
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Act of hate
Around 6 a.m. Thursday, former governor and first lady David and Rhonda Walters received text messages from their maintenance director, who oversees the Walters’ commercial real estate. The building they own at 3700 N. Classen Blvd., which houses Oklahoma Democratic Party, Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County and other organizations, had been hit with […]
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Commentary: Mein campus
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 […]
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Fist fight
A logo of brass knuckles and a mission statement some believed romanticized the state’s land run history helped contribute to widespread social media suspicion the fledgling Defend OKC T-shirt and lifestyle brand represented — or at least was sympathetic to — white supremacist ideals. The brand has repeatedly refuted the association. “I’ve explicitly reiterated to […]
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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. […]
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Full palette
¡Viva Sabor! 6-10 p.m. June 15 Exhibit C Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. okchispanicchamber.org 405-616-5031 $45-$100 After a brief period of relative inactivity, Inclusion in Art reemerged earlier this year with CHROMA: Artists of Color, an art exhibition exclusively featuring local artists of color. Narciso Argüelles, executive director of the nonprofit that advocates for […]
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Local impact: Proposed federal budget cuts threaten to reduce or eliminate social services and humanities agencies
Oklahoma Humanities, AmeriCorps and Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma will most likely be affected if federal program budgets are cut.