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

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

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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...

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...

This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows John Marion Grant. A federal appeals court has granted a stay of execution for two Oklahoma inmates who were scheduled to receive lethal injections in the coming weeks. A three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit issued the stays Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, for death row inmates John Marion Grant and Julius Jones. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP)

National death penalty organization says botched Oklahoma executions grounds for heavy criticism

Zaria Oates October 29, 2021

WASHINGTON -- Was John Grant’s execution botched? Oklahoma officials say it wasn’t, but the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C.,says it was worse than...

The upcoming Wilma Mankiller quarter design. (U.S. Mint Department)

Female leaders in Oklahoma tribes say Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller was inspiring

Nancy Marie Spears October 26, 2021

The design has been chosen for the new Wilma Mankiller quarter, the third coin of the American Women’s Quarters program, that will begin circulating in 2022.  The selection of Mankiller, who was...

Alex Cameron, Washington D.C. correspondent of News 9, interviews Gaylord News reporter Libbey Dean in the Cannon Rotunda. (Gaylord News/ Vy Luong)

News 9 Washington DC correspondent Alex Cameron highlights Gaylord News program

Libbey Dean July 16, 2021

  WASHINGTON -- For years, OU’s Gaylord School of Journalism has been helping turn students into working journalists. More recently, the school has given a select few students the opportunity...

The Comanche Nation Smoke Shop logo.  Gaylord News photo courtesy of the Comanche Nation Smoke Shop Facebook page.

Hearing set in suit against Comanche tobacco shops

Nancy Marie Spears, Reporter December 1, 2020

A hearing is scheduled Thursday on a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the tobacco shops owned by the Comanche Nation brought by a former business partner.  G.J.S. International Inc. filed a lawsuit...

The entrance to Nappy Roots Books, located at 3705 Springlake Dr. in Oklahoma City. (Gaylord News/Nancy Spears)

Nappy Roots: Black-owned bookstore becomes a site for advocacy, activism

Nancy Marie Spears, Reporter November 30, 2020

Nappy Roots Books, one of only two Black-owned bookstore in Oklahoma City, and one of four Black-owned bookstores in the state, has managed to stay afloat despite challenges brought on by the COVID-19...

Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford talks with reporters about Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett and stimulus negotiations. Gaylord News / Jessie Christopher Smith.

SCOTUS confirmation battle, stimulus stalemate highlight partisan divide

Jessie Christopher Smith and Emma Sears October 26, 2020

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee was confirmed Monday night, Oklahoma’s two senators pinned the blame on Democrats as coronavirus relief negotiations stalled yet again.  Sens....

Clara Luper was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement and is largely credited with starting the movement in Oklahoma.  Photo courtesy BlackPast.org

Renaming OKC post office a lesson on civil rights

Jessie Christopher Smith, Reporter October 1, 2020

WASHINGTON -- A bill renaming the downtown Oklahoma City post office for an Oklahoma civil rights icon has been stalled in a Senate committee of which Sen. James Lankford is a member. The bill to rename...

Boundaries of six state tribes now on Google Maps

Boundaries of six state tribes now on Google Maps

Jessie Christopher Smith, Reporter September 24, 2020

WASHINGTON — A landmark Supreme Court case is already changing how Oklahoma shows up on Google, with the reservation boundaries for six of the tribal nations represented on maps for the first time in...

Native American tribes in Oklahoma are working to increase participation in the census. (Gaylord News Photo)

Oklahoma in ‘final sprint’ before census deadline

Bennett Brinkman, Reporter September 23, 2020

As the Sept. 30 deadline for census responses approaches, a number of Oklahoma groups are working to ensure as many people as possible are counted. Oklahoma currently has a response rate of 93.8%, ranking...

Census awareness raised in immigrant communities despite bureau troubles

Census awareness raised in immigrant communities despite bureau troubles

Jessie Christopher Smith, Reporter September 15, 2020

WASHINGTON – Oklahoma may have been spared missing thousands of immigrants in the 2020 census when a federal judge temporarily stopped the Trump administration from ending the census early, according...

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