This past spring, while COVID-19 ripped through mostly Democratic states like New York, Washington, and New Jersey, the American South had yet to feel its full brunt. Later that season, though, into the summer, everything began...
Since the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) demonstrated its monarchical authority over democracy again in December by failing to defend the landmark 1973 Roe versus Wade case that legalized abortion, right-wing states are racing against each...
Benjamin Petty (mugshot courtesy Oklahoma Department of Corrections via KFOR-TV)
Back in 2016, a Texas girl visiting a Christian youth camp in southern Oklahoma was violently raped and sodomized by one of the cooks. And yet, as it stands now, this monster will not serve...
A bill that recently stalled in committee in Oklahoma has reared its ugly head again. On Feb. 8, HB1441, introduced by State Representative Justin Humphrey, received a 4-4 vote in committee, and people who value...
Since it's been firmly established Russia did indeed hack and interfere in the 2016 election, Republicans are now either trying to discredit those who informed us of this fact or saying it's really not a big...
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Over the years I had heard many stories concerning atrocities visited upon blacks by whites in just the past hundred years. Black babies being fed to alligators in Florida, the brutal and demonic mutilation and...
Robert Bates on his way to being booked at the Tulsa County jail (courtesy ABC News)
Last week, the Tulsa World reported that Robert Bates, the reserve Tulsa County sheriff's deputy who killed an unarmed man in a drug sting--supposedly after intending to tase him instead--may have had his training records...
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We are living in very disturbing times it seems -- another day, another hate crime. On Monday 6th March someone in a truck drove past the Dennis R. Neil Equality Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma and fired thirteen shots into...
Benjamin Petty (mugshot courtesy Oklahoma Department of Corrections via KFOR-TV)
Whenever victims of domestic violence and sexual assault come forward years after their ordeals take place, they are often asked why they waited so long to speak up. Speaking as someone who was a victim...
It keeps getting more horrific. More unbelievable, even thought it's right there in front of our eyes. Apparently some people really can commit murder in front of thousands of witnesses and still get away with it. The...
Be Afraid. Wow. Republicans are hell bent on scaring Americans to pieces. The guy in the White House keeps warning us that dangerous brown people are pouring over the Mexican border to get us. He reminds...
Republicans don't need to wait until they hold a congressional majority again to wreak havoc on democracy. We needn't look further than state-level legislation tailored specifically to criminalize First Amendment-protected free speech, suppress voting, and stifle...
There will be yet another Department of Justice investigation into yet another police shooting of an unarmed black man. Terence Crutcher was killed this past Friday while standing next to his broken-down SUV.  Officer Shelby's Husband...
Imagine for a moment that your 4-year-old son, who is in preschool, comes home one day and tells you that his teacher has informed him that he must stop being left-handed and switch to his...
Oklahoma legislators have successfully passed a ban on AP U.S. History courses. The move to ban history has Oklahoma giving Texas a run for their money, who last year began rewriting textbooks. Conservatives in Oklahoma...
The homepage of ISD Records before its deletion (screenshot courtesy KXII)
A few weeks ago, an Oklahoma town hired its fourth police chief since the start of 2017. Well, now they're be looking for a fifth. On Saturday night, the newly hired chief resigned amid questions...
Robert Bates on his way to being booked at the Tulsa County jail (courtesy ABC News)
Back on April 2, Robert Bates, an insurance executive and reserve sheriff's deputy in Tulsa County, Oklahoma; shot and killed Eric Harris while Harris was cuffed on the ground during a drug sting. Bates said...
Many Christians have been passing laws under the guise of protecting "religious freedom," but really they only want freedom for Christians. Oklahoma is proving that this week. A Satanic church has scheduled a large Black...
Teachers are not celebrities. They travel to classrooms all over America every day to put their sweat and tears into a mostly thankless job for students, many of whom do not want to be in school,...
Senators across America vowed to listen to their constituents before voting on the new healthcare bill, which thankfully didn't pass because House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) pulled it before the scheduled vote Friday. One woman grew...