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A restaurant owner in Loco says Oklahoma’s current minimum wage is “unfeasible,” but argued that doubling it in short intervals would raise major obstacles for small businesses. On June 16, Oklahoma voters will decide on SQ 832, a proposal to gradually increase the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour by […]
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As a small business owner who has operated a childcare facility in Tulsa for years, I know firsthand through the debate around State Question 832 that my business’s long-term success directly ties to valuing my employees’ labor. The challenge of balancing a budget while ensuring fair compensation for my employees is always at the forefront […]
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TULSA, Okla. — Angela Rye stood beneath the lights of the Greenwood 120 Award Gala, holding an award she said she could not accept. “I cannot accept this award with integrity,” Rye said Friday night. “Because telling the truth in this harrowing hour is not sufficient. Educating the stubborn, ignorant, and unwilling is a worthy cause, […]
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When the Oklahoma City Thunder won the 2025 NBA Championship, I did not watch only as a fan. I watched as a Black American and Antiguan daughter of the diaspora. I watched as someone born from island memory and raised in North Tulsa, where Greenwood is not a distant history lesson but an inheritance. I […]
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TULSA, Okla — Tonight, at the inaugural Greenwood 120 Gala in Tulsa, Oklahoma, three of the most consequential voices in American public life will be recognized not just for their individual achievements — but for what their work means in the long arc of a community that refused to be erased. Justice for Greenwood, the […]
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