Oklahoma culture

Despite bipartisan calls for a resolution to reject controversial proposed social studies standards, the legislature let Tuesday's deadline pass without a floor hearing.

As the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing approaches, a group of young musicians is connecting with the tragedy through performing themes of resilience.

More than a century after U.S. Indian boarding schools attempted to erase Indigenous cultures and languages, tribal nations in Oklahoma are working to reclaim and teach their languages to the youth.

Thousands of Oklahomans got payments from a Biden-era program to help address generations of farm lending discrimination. Now, the Trump Administration wants to end programs that could be labeled as DEI. Some Oklahoma programs have already seen funding freezes.

Oklahoma State University and the University of Central Oklahoma say some of their international students have had their visas revoked.

Gov. Kevin Stitt anticipates the U.S. Supreme Court will accommodate state-sponsored religious education in its upcoming hearing of oral arguments in the St. Isidore Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond case. A recent study published in the state's Bar Association Journal suggests he's right.

Oral arguments over the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s — and the nation’s — first state-funded religious charter school are scheduled for April 30. Meanwhile, Gov. Kevin Stitt is trying to get ahead of the conversation with an executive order this week, doubling down on his vision of religious freedom in the state.

A bill banning lab-grown meat passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives and is on the way to the Oklahoma Senate.

Lawmakers and students also protested the Trump administration’s crackdown on federal funding and layoffs of federal employees, including those at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Oklahoma was home to an estimated 83 Indian boarding schools — the most in the country. These schools were popular in the early 20th century and had a genocidal campaign known under its unofficial slogan, “kill the Indian, save the man.”