Ryan Walters would rather force #oklaed students to learn fake news about the 2020 election than improve the state's 49th ranking in education.

"Everything they say about DEI, it applies more to White conservatives in the Republican party more than anything.”
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An Oklahoma prison tried to cremate a prisoners body before the family knew he was even dead. Now Republican Rep JJ Humphrey is working with the family of Marquiel Ross to demand an investigation and justice.
#odoc #oklahomastatepen #indepthwithdeon #justice #marquielross #oklahoma #okleg

Republican Rep. JJ Humphrey admits his police anti-doxxing bill has gaps that law enforcement has exploited two years after I first brought those concerns to him as a journalist. Now a sheriff in Oklahoma is going after a police whistleblower. #indepthwithdeonpodcast

"You're just a token": Dr. George Henderson says good tokens are able to open the doors "for the next one and the next one." Over a six-decade career at the University of Oklahoma, he's opened thousands of doors for the Black folks who come after him. #indepthwithdeonpodcast

"We enslaved Black people in the 19th Century," Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Hoskin Jr. says, describing the role enslaved Black people, later known as Cherokee Freedmen, played in building the economy of the Cherokee Nation.
#cherokeenation #cherokeefreedmen #indepthwithdeonpodcast

"The Cherokee Nation existed before anyone ever heard of the United States. Before anyone invented the state of Oklahoma, there was a Cherokee Nation." Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. joins In Depth With Deon Podcast.

Tulsa’s Tyrance Billingsley II, a son of Greenwood, is leading the transformation of Black Wall Street into a premier Black tech hub. Don’t call it a comeback. Call it Black Tech Street.

#new episode drops this Friday anywhere you get your podcasts.

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Tulsa’s Sheyda Brown says Oklahoma education should focus on reading, not bibles in the classroom.

10 DAYS until the relaunch of #indepthwithdeonpodcast

Full episodes on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcast, and @thebwstimes.bsky.social starting Friday, Jan. 24.

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“It shouldn’t matter that I’m gay. It shouldn’t matter that I’m Black. It shouldn’t matter that I’m a woman.”
-Amnoni Myers on recognizing identity and privilege.

Full episodes on YouTube #indepthwithfeonpod

When you’re trying to make a point about an historic election, but someone in the studio has to use the bathroom.

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The same night millions around the country were mourning the results of the presidential election, there was a celebration in Tulsa’s Greenwood District with Monroe Nichols elected first Black mayor.

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Presented by @thebwstimes.bsky.social

I spoke with Sheyda Brown, deputy director of the Terence Crutcher Foundation, about how Tulsa elected its first Black mayor, a progressive Democrat, in some precincts that Trump won by over 60%.

Out now early on Patreon or everywhere after the inauguration in January! #indepthwithdeonpodcast