by Mitch Randall | Sep 8, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
As part of Pastors for Oklahoma Kids, an urgent message arrived in my email this week: Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters established a new “partnership” with PragerU, a radically conservative media company attempting to provide school resources nationwide....
by Jack Moline | Jul 20, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Something we hear a lot of today is the challenge to be on the right side of history. Depending on what you expect that side to be, you are either encouraged or horrified to consider what that challenge means. For me, the most powerful moment in Kander and Ebb’s...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 17, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre filed a lawsuit for reparations and the rebuilding of the Greenwood District. Caroline Wall, an Oklahoma judge, dismissed it and don’t you ever forget it. The court ruled that Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher and...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jul 6, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Historians are adept at naming spans of time. We have the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Atomic Age, for example. I wonder how future generations will make sense of these times in which we live, in which many barely subsist. No doubt they will...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 5, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Susan and I have been digging at Tel Shimron for more than a week, and every day brings 10 hours of hot and dirty and very tiring work – but we asked for it. I admit there are times, when I’m sweating at the bottom of a deep excavation square or carrying heavy buckets...