April Simpson

Tech shifts have a history of keeping Black and other groups at the bottom of economic opportunities. Will generative AI be different?

Investigating inequality

Investigating inequality

The Boley rodeo celebrates a certain Black presence in Oklahoma and the history of the Western frontier, as well as its place in Black farming, past and present.

The USDA has struggled to address discrimination — and still does today. So much comes down to data it collects about Black farmers.

Black farmers are a dwindling lot, living on less land and carrying heavier financial burdens than white farmers. The USDA wants to turn things around.

Eddie Slaughter, who battled for farm loan debt relief for the Black farmers who needed it, died Wednesday.

In his State of the State address last month, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt moved through several common GOP talking points: support for school choice, a ban on all gender transition surgeries and hormone therapies for minors and continuing a tradition of business-friendly policies. And he singled out the state’s two largest public universities: “Because when […]

Loretta J. Ross is a human rights advocate and founding member of the organization SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Since its founding in 1997, the group has become a leading voice for the concept of reproductive justice as an alternative framework to pro-choice and anti-abortion arguments. The three tenets of the concept are: […]

In the days when the COVID-19 virus was new, less understood and more deadly, officials in Louisiana turned to state prison inmates to produce essential but scarce products to slow the rapid spread of the virus. There were occupational hazards and health concerns for the imprisoned people mixing chemicals to create hard-to-find hand sanitizer. For […]