(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 5/18/2017) – The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today expressed outrage at the acquittal for Officer Betty Shelby, who shot and killed Terence Crutcher in September 2016, joining Black Lives Matter...
Air travel problems kept the national president of the NAACP from speaking in Tulsa on Sunday night, but that didn’t detract from the enthusiasm of the service, as Tulsa pastors and leaders stepped up to the podium. Cornell William Brooks was scheduled to speak at...
In the wake of national outrage evoked by the fatal police shooting of Terence Crutcher, hundreds of people gathered Sunday to show their support for justice through poetry and music. The Rally for Justice, held at the Greenwood Cultural Center, 322 N. Greenwood Ave.,...
CAIR-OK, Other Groups Call for Fair Investigation into Shooting of Unarmed Black Man in Tulsa OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 9/22/2016 – The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today joined more than 20 other organizations in a letter to the...
Recently, a group of men at the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity were caught on video singing a racist chant about keeping black men out of their fraternity, complete with allusions to lynching and murder. In an unexpectedly swift response, OU...
