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  Legends & Legacies Honorees Marilyn Luper Hildreth  Marilyn Luper Hildreth, a Living Legend, has been a part of the Civil Rights Movement all of her life. Being the daughter of...

“Where do you start?” Former Senator Connie Johnson throws out the question to the audience gathered at Oklahoma City’s Nappy Roots Books on a Spring evening. “With all the challenges we face, how does anyone decide which one to tackle first?” Senator Johnson went on to explain that the answer to that question is highly individual. People get excited about, get involved in, those causes that strike a chord with them. Sometimes problems have to hit you in the face before you decide to take action.

The organizational meeting of the Oklahoma Federation of Democratic Women, a state-wide affiliated member organization of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, was held in Oklahoma City at the historic Huckins Hotel on Saturday the 10th day of April 1965.

Since 1991, Anita Arnold has served as Executive Director of BLAC, Inc. Arnold is a former executive of the U.S. Postal Service where she had responsibility for national information systems for Real Estate and Buildings of the Postal Service. She was the second-highest level female Postal  Service executive in the country.

  Photography by Elrey Carr Jana Harkins, President, OK Federation of Democratic Women’s Club , guest and Kitti Asberry , President, Georgia Brown Democratic Women’s Club Rev. T. Sheri Dickerson,...

Upcoming Juneteenth event at the Oklahoma History Center, featuring Carmen Fields, the daughter of the famous big band leader Ernie Fields Sr. and sister of musician Ernie Fields Jr.  ...

  Also Online Registration for this event is found at https://www.scoutingrocks.tv/content/71399/2019-Adventure-on-the--River

In 1999, the Edmond businessman, Paul Howell, was murdered in a botched carjacking in his driveway. The tragic death of Mr. Howell and the trauma of the family he left behind, are deserving of justice. But the panic prompted by this cruel murder resulted in an unfair trial and it threatens the life of my former John Marshall student, Julius Jones. Nearly two decades after the crime, a DNA test was conducted, and here is why the new findings, when viewed as a part of the overall case, do not implicate Jones...