Tag: Oklahoma

Oklahoma’s Booming Film Industry Has Texas’ Attention

For a very brief moment, Taylor Sheridan’s hit television series starring Sylvester Stallone had the working title “Kansas City Mob.” But at the time, Missouri had no state funding for film subsidies. “Tulsa King” was born. “We had the incentive, so we got the name,” said Rachel Cannon, the founder of Prairie Surf Studios in […]

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Enid, Oklahoma, City Council Member With White Nationalist Ties Voted Out In Recall Election

NewsOne Featured Video Source: 4nadia / Getty Welp, the saga of The People of Enid vs. The White Supremacist They Put in Office has finally come to an end as Enid, Oklahoma, voters have successfully recalled city council member Judd Blevins, the politician who once served as a tiki torch-wielding leader of neo-Nazi group Identity […]

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Did Prosecutors’ Sex Shaming Help Send Brenda Andrew to Death Row?

During his closing argument in the 2004 murder trial of Brenda Andrew in Oklahoma, a prosecutor dangled her thong underwear before the jury. She had packed the undergarment for a trip to Mexico a few days after her estranged husband was killed. The prosecutor, Gayland Gieger, said the item was strong evidence that Ms. Andrew […]

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