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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Carpenter Square Theatre explores race and religious sects in Crumbs From the Table of Joy
The play runs through March 10 at the downtown theater.
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Carpenter Square Theatre presents Civil War drama The Whipping Man
The show draws parallels between Jewish and African slavery.
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LETTERS
Thank you, Rev. Meyers Thanks for your commentaries, Rev. Robin Meyers. I always read your views. — Mel Wright Oklahoma City Let’s be pioneers To the state of Oklahoma, the first Oklahomans were called pioneers. We pride ourselves as pioneers and leaders of industry in many areas and fields, mainly our natural resources. Right here, […]
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Django Unchained
The result is a brutal, bloody epic that hits theaters on Christmas Day. Happy birthday, Jesus! Paying homage to the Italian Django franchise birthed in 1966, Tarantino delivers what could serve as the origin story of the bounty hunter, if not for his Civil War-era setting and race-reversal casting. Jamie Foxx (Horrible Bosses) is enormously […]
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Poised for progress
The election of an African-American president to an organization with its roots in slavery is being heralded as a milestone in racial reform. The Southern Baptists broke off from Northern Baptists in 1845 in support of slavery. Having supported Jim Crow and resisted integration for more than a century, the organization officially apologized in 1995. […]
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Crimes of exploitation
She has to do this because even if the gun against her head isn’t visible, she knows it’s there. Somewhere in the darkness watching is the man she once thought was her boyfriend, or once thought to be the cute boy she chatted with online and decided to meet, or was someone who had promised […]
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Crimes of exploitation
She has to do this because even if the gun against her head isn’t visible, she knows it’s there. Somewhere in the darkness watching is the man she once thought was her boyfriend, or once thought to be the cute boy she chatted with online and decided to meet, or was someone who had promised […]
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Oklahoma AG likens anti-abortion struggle to abolition fight
Pruitt, a Republican elected in November to replace outgoing Attorney General Drew Edmondson, was the highest-ranking statewide official to speak at the local event, which also included state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, and U.S. Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla., several area pastors and religious organizations. Likening the anti-abortion movement to British Parliament member William Wilberforce’s […]
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Questions answered from the Rev. Kern
My remarks were, “The Constitution is Christian document; prepared by Christians to preserve an already established Christian social order.” His two questions were concerned with established slavery during that time and the problem of divine right of kings, which he says was perpetuated by Christian absolutes. First, there is the question of slavery. It no […]