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Playwright Erik Ehn on Soulographie: Our Genocides a Commemorative Cycle

Jody Christopherson | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: El Salvador, Erik Ehn, Theater of Yugen, Tulsa-Oklahoma, San Salvador, Africa, La Mama, Uganda, Playwrighting, Theater for Change, Tulsa, Rwanda, Witnessing, Soulographie, New York Theater, Video, Kony and Child Soldiers, Arts News
Jody Christopherson

Playwrights like these, clearly passionate people who are willing to risk, willing to do things the hard way -- they have the important and difficult task of sharing what they've seen. How do they begin to speak the unspeakable?

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Suspects Confessed In Tulsa Shootings

AP | JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Alvin Watts Confession, Alvin Watts Tulsa, Jake England Confession, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Tulsa Shooting Suspect, Tulsa Shootings, Racism, Jake England, Alvin Watts, Jake England Tulsa, Hate Crime, Tulsa, Black Voices News

TULSA, Okla. — The two suspects arrested in a shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa's black community and left three people dead have confessed...

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(GRAPHIC PHOTOS) Witness Photographs Violent Standoff Moment By Moment

AP | ROCHELLE HINES | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Andrew Joseph Dennehy, Andrew Joseph Dennehy Shooting, Andrew Joseph Dennehy Tulsa, Tulsa Courthouse Shooting, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Tulsa Courthouse, Crime News

OKLAHOMA CITY — Authorities were investigating Thursday whether the suspected gunman wounded in a shootout near a Tulsa courthouse was trying to...

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Maggie The Porcupine And Friends Make Art

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Tulsa Zoo, Art Untamed, Zoo Animal Art, Maggie the Porcupine, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Animal Art, Video, Arts News

We've already seen comparisons between the art of young children and the masters of abstract expressionism, but the efforts of some zoo animals in Tul...

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A Tragic, Yet Uplifting, Symphony for Tulsa

Adrian Margaret Brune | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Ensemble, Jazz, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Jazz Standard, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Black History, Tulsa-Race-Riots, Jazz Music, Arts News
Adrian Margaret Brune

Racial disparity has become a core thematic underpinning for the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, nearly 50 years after a Tulsa race riot that was part of the lynchings and race riots of the era.

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Man On Tower For 5 Days Crows Like A Rooster At Sunrise

Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Video, Tulsa-Oklahoma, William Sturdivant, Man Climbs Tower, Man Climbs Tulsa Tower, Weird Oklahoma, Weird News News

A man in Tulsa climbed to the top of a 300-foot tower on Thursday and has refused to come down. Police fear that William Boyd Sturdivant II could ...

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90 Years On: A Look Back At The Tulsa Race Riot

Adrian Margaret Brune | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: The Nation, Walter F White, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Tulsa Race Riots, Race Riots, Walter White, Racism, Tulsa Race Riot, Civil Rights, Naacp, Impact News
Adrian Margaret Brune

Despite the efforts of journalists over the years, Tulsans always managed to sweep the riot's history under the rug. For nearly eight decades, the riot remained Tulsa's closeted skeleton.

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Oklahoma to Sponsor Tea Party Militia?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Birch Society, Civil Liberties, Militia, Civil War, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Racism, Gop, United States, Oklahoma, Socialism, Race, Tea Party, Oklahoma City Bombing, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

The Tea Party has no right to intimidation and armed violence. The formation of a Tea Party Militia can be construed to serve no purpose other than that.

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Patterson not shocked by Frogs' fall in poll

AP | STEPHEN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BCS Standings, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Home News

FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU coach Gary Patterson isn't surprised by his undefeated team's drop in The Associated Press poll.

Not after the Horned Frogs' 20-17 victory over Air Force in their Mountain West Conference opener.

"I told people we'll drop in the polls with the writers," Patterson said Tuesday during his weekly news conference, recalling what he said after the game. "It's all about perception, it's not about the facts."

Patterson figured that the close score combined with the perception some people around the country still have about BCS buster hopeful TCU and its conference would factor into the voting. And he apparently was right.

After reaching the Top 10 during the season last week for only the second time in 50 years, the Frogs (5-0) dropped two spots to 12th after winning on the road in an icy mist and bitter wind Saturday night.

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Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in California at age 91

Grand Junction Free Press | GJ Free Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newport Beach-California, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Home News

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Oral Roberts, the evangelist who rose from humble tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar ministry and a universit...

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At University of Phoenix, allegations of enrollment abuses persist

Education News Colorado. | Education News Colorado | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phoenix, Tulsa-Oklahoma, Home News

By Sharona Coutts, ProPublica A University of Phoenix building in Tulsa, Okla. (Flickr user Lost Tulsa) After federal regulators accused the U...

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Tulsa dominated CU Buff men

Daily Camera. | Daily Camera | Posted 05.25.2011

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TULSA, Okla. -- Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That was Albert Einstein's definition....

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What If He Were Your Child?

Jennifer Evans Gardner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jennifer Evans Gardner, Matthew Shepard Act, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, Brandon Patrick, Matthew Shepard, Tulsa Oklahoma, Hate Crime, Healthy Living News
Jennifer Evans Gardner

I pray that I don't have to read about any more citizens on any more streets in any more cities in this country being attacked for being who they are.

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Report: Reno highest in construction job losses

AP | SANDRA CHEREB | Posted 05.25.2011

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CARSON CITY, Nev. — A new report shows Nevada's Reno-Sparks region is the nation's hardest hit area when it comes to construction jobs lost in the recession.

The report released Wednesday by the Associated General Contractors of America ranks the metropolitan area 337th based on the percentage of construction jobs gained or lost in the past year.

From August 2008 to August 2009, Reno lost 35 percent of its construction work force.

The area of Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., did only slightly better, followed by Tucson, Ariz., Wenatchee, Wash., and Redding, Calif.

On the other end of the spectrum, construction employment in Columbus, Ind., grew 14 percent. Other spots that improved include Anderson, Ind., Tulsa, Okla., Longview, Wash., and Baton Rouge, La.

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He Might Have Been A Sports Legend

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, The Beatles, Social Justice, Moon Landing, Baseball, Cherokee Nation, Martin Luther King, Football, Lunar Landing, Tulsa Oklahoma, July 20 1969, Apollo Project, Healthy Living News
Stephen Herrington

On this anniversary of our Lunar achievement and the graduation of my class of 1969, I wonder if there is any more immutable thing than the ephemeral moment of a winning touchdown.

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Trooper Fights Paramedics With Patient Still In Ambulance (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Cops Fight Paramedics, Police Fight Emt, Oklahoma, Cops Fight Emts, Tulsa Oklahoma, Police Fight Paramedics, Emt, Home News

Oklahoma's Tulsa World newspaper reports on a bizarre scuffle this past week after a highway patrol officer pulled over an ambulance that was carrying...

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