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Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Joyce Smith-Williams celebrates the legacy of Greenwood’s Black Wall Street at the Legacy Festival. Smith-Williams, a longtime Greenwood resident, wears shirts to memorialize the experience of her people almost every day. PHOTO: Madeline Cantrell.

T-shirts serve a spirit of remembrance in two neighborhoods separated by state lines

Madeline Cantrell June 8, 2024

TULSA, OKLAHOMA AND MINNEAPOLIS Although they are both still grappling with acts of racial violence, there is a spirit of remembrance rooted in hope in the Greenwood District of Tulsa and the neighborhood...

The Vernon AME (African Methodists Episcopal) Church in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, was founded before Oklahoma statehood. During the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, people of the neighborhood sheltered in the church’s basement.  Vernon AME continues to serve and support the largely Black community of North Tulsa. SOURCE: Google Street Maps.

Faith and trauma define two neighborhoods 700 miles apart

Graham Dowers June 6, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS AND TULSA, OKLAHOMA The neighborhood surrounding 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis and the Greenwood district of Tulsa are communities that share a common bond through their...

Descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre pose in front of the Doorways to Hope art
installation commemorating their ancestors. PHOTO: Cameron Williams

Tulsa’s Elgin Street underpass is home to Doorways to Hope

Cameron Williams and LJ Golston June 2, 2024

TULSA, OKLAHOMA – Community leaders and artists gathered under the Elgin Street underpass to unveil 20 murals depicting key figures of the Greenwood District of Tulsa on Saturday, June 1. The event,...

Tiffany Crutcher introduces a group of Japanese-American panelists at the Black Wall Street Legacy Summit. Maria Nairn/Gaylord News

Legacy and history are different concepts, Black Wall Street panelists say at festival

Teegan Smith and Ana Castillo June 1, 2024

TULSA, OKLAHOMA – Learning history and connecting with legacy are different concepts, according to at least one panelist at the fourth annual Black Wall Street Legacy Festival in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood...

Sandy Harris, left, and Jonnette Paddy, right, with Indigenous Women Rising talk about abortion care and reproductive health with attendees at the “Women Are Sacred” conference on June 27, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. (Photo by Noel Lyn Smith/News21)

Indigenous Americans unite to navigate abortion access after Roe

Noel Lyn Smith and Maddy Keyes February 21, 2024

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Rachael Lorenzo calls it their “auntie laugh,” a powerful chuckle that lasts long and fills any space. Aunties are prominent figures in Indigenous culture who offer comfort when...

Chase Griffin shakes hands with representatives and NCAA President Charlie Baker shakes hands with U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan after an NIL hearing in Washington D.C. Lisa Maslovskaya/Gaylord News

Student athletes take issue with NIL regulation during hearing in Washington

Lisa Maslovskaya January 19, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The FAIR College Sports Act is designed to protect students, its sponsors say. But athletes who testified Thursday on Capitol Hill say the bill imposes burdensome restrictions and...

Republican candidates, Gov. Ron Desantis, left; former President Donald Trump, center; and former Ambassador Nikki Haley make their cases at rallies across Iowa. Katrina Crumbacher and Katie Hallum photos/Gaylord News

News Analysis

Dani Ingram January 14, 2024

Every four years, Iowa becomes the epicenter of American politics and sets the stage for the presidential election as the first stop in the Primary race. The caucus is a complex voting system that involves...

Latino activist Joe Henry holds a copy of Tio Bernie by Chuck Rocha.  Kevin Engleson photo/Gaylord News

Disenfranchised Latino voters feel ignored in the Road to the White House

Kevin Eagleson January 14, 2024

STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Latino voters across Iowa and the nation say they are being left out by political campaigns leading up to Monday’s first in the nation Iowa caucuses and the primaries on the Road...

Vian High School’s front entrance is now the primary entrance for students and visitors. All other outside doors are now locked at all times, a change made after the campus lockdown in January. (Gaylord News photo/Kayden Anderson).

Not a drill: gun violence is even affecting rural Oklahoma town

Kayden Anderson December 14, 2023

VIAN – It is becoming increasingly clear that gun violence can come to anywhere, even a small town in eastern Oklahoma with a population of 1,300. Another act of school gun violence occurred earlier...

97-year-old Dewey Parker tells stories of his time in World War II.  Maria Nairn/Gaylord News

‘And they said – ‘It’s over’ – just like that,’ according to 97-year-old World War II vet

Nathaniel Pletcher November 10, 2023

September 2, 2023, marked the 78th Anniversary of the end of World War II. Fewer than 1 percent of the 16.1 million Americans who served in World War II are still alive this Veterans Day. The oral history...

Oklahoma Representative Frank Lucas (R, Cheyenne) is the longest-serving member of the House Committee on Agriculture and has had a hand in writing every Farm Bill since 1996. Julia Manipella/Gaylord News

Farm bill may not pass by end of year

Maddy Keyes November 8, 2023

WASHINGTON —  With just days until the country faces another potential government shutdown, it appears unlikely that Congress will pass a new Farm Bill before current funding expires at the end of the...

Photo by Elsa Olofsson. (Pexels.com)

Oklahoma cannabis businesses ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Senate banking legislation

Maddy Keyes November 6, 2023

WASHINGTON — A long-awaited cannabis banking bill is making its way to the Senate floor after years of being held up in Congress.  But as the government recovers from a weeks-long speaker’s race...

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