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Hunger Hides in Plain Sight: North Tulsa Deserves More Than Awareness
Hunger does not always look like an empty plate. Sometimes it looks like a full-time worker standing in a grocery aisle doing math. It is a senior deciding whether medication or groceries can wait, a college student skipping dinner, or a family that appears completely stable…
John Croisant challenges Mark Tedford to congressional debate in Oklahoma’s 1st District
TULSA, Okla. — Democratic nominee John Croisant is pressing Republican nominee Mark Tedford to participate in a public debate before voters select their next representative for Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District. Croisant’s campaign said it first challenged Tedford publicly in…
Oklahoma judge publicly reprimanded
Oklahoma judge publicly reprimanded mps-post Wed, 09/30/2026 - 05:16 Image (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (Oklahoma Voice) The Oklahoma Supreme Court publicly reprimanded a Tulsa county judge, saying her conduct was “indefensible” and reflected a lack of…
‘American Diplomacy in Peril’: Black Leaders Seek to Restore Legitimacy
WASHINGTON — As the United States faces wars abroad, strained alliances, tariffs and deepening debates over its role in the world, Black political and civil-rights leaders are drawing on a tradition that stretches from W.E.B. Du Bois to Rev. Jesse Jackson: using the struggle for…
At The CBC Conference, Black Women Sound The Alarm On Jobs And Economic Security
Publisher’s Note: The interview subject requested anonymity. We have changed their name to Tasha* to protect their identity. When Tasha* lost her job after nearly two decades in public health, she lost more than a paycheck. She lost her health insurance, her home, and the…
Mississippi Godayum: An Open Letter To A State With A Song Of Silence
Dear Mississippi, Your silence is a show tune. But you’ve sung this tune for far too long. In 1955, there was the gruesome murder of Emmett Till. Silence. In 1963, the assassination of Medgar Evers and the bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four Black…
Pastor embezzled $504K from historic Vernon AME, which survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
TULSA, Okla. — Historic Vernon AME Church says former pastor Keith Rydell Mayes Sr. acted without the knowledge or authorization of church leadership when he diverted more than $504,000 while overseeing the finances of one of Greenwood’s most significant institutions. Mayes, 63,…