Oklahoma State Black Faculty & Staff Association

07/12/2024

Well my friends! I figure since tomorrow is technically my last day in the office, I would go ahead and post this!

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01/23/2024

This year marks the 75th Anniversary of Nancy Randolph Davis as the first African American student to enroll at Oklahoma State University. This seminal event in American history was the catalyst that ignited the global diversity we see in our faculty, staff, and students today. Subsequently, the College of Education and Human Sciences and the Division of Institutional Diversity would like to cordially invite you to attend this momentous occasion for our University.

01/09/2024

Join us in celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream! For more information, follow the link 👇https://studentaffairs.okstate.edu/students/mlk-celebration/

02/09/2023

“No backwards steps,” this is the phrase that Breland Steward, senior marketing student in the Spears School of Business, lives his life by, believing each step he takes in his life must be in the right direction.

How Breland Steward, senior marketing student in the Spears School of Business made an impact at Oklahoma State University and in his community.

02/09/2023

05/23/2022

In We Refuse to Forget, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders like Cow Tom, a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief, the U.S. government recognized Creek citizenship in 1866 for its Black members. Yet this equality was shredded in the 1970s when tribal leaders revoked the citizenship of Black Creeks, even those who could trace their history back generations—even to Cow Tom himself.

Why did this happen? How was the U.S. government involved? And what are Cow Tom’s descendants and other Black Creeks doing to regain their citizenship? These are some of the questions that Gayle explores in this provocative examination of racial and ethnic identity. By delving into the history and interviewing Black Creeks who are fighting to have their citizenship reinstated, he lays bare the racism and greed at the heart of this story. We Refuse to Forget is an eye-opening account that challenges our preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of white supremacy and marginalization that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans.

Magic City Books is proud to welcome award winning journalist and Tulsa native, Caleb Gayle to celebrate the launch of his new book, We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of...

05/20/2022

Magic City Books and PEN America along with community partners The Black Wall Street Legacy Festival, The Black Wall Street Times and Fulton Street Books and Coffee are proud to welcome Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and creator of The 1619 Project for a free, in-person program on Tuesday May 31 at 7:00 pm at Booker T. Washington High School.

We are asking for guests to register in advance for this free program and all event related communication will be sent to the email address used to register for the event. Each individual guest must register, tickets are transferable.

All guests will be required to show proof of vaccination or proof of a negative COVID test from within the previous 48 hours. Please be sure to come prepared with that documentation.

The proper wearing of face masks is encouraged and appreciated.

Copies of THE 1619 PROJECT by Nikole Hannah-Jones and BORN ON THE WATER by Nikole Hannah-Jones are available for sale at Magic City Books and will also be for sale at the event on May 31.

The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country's very origin.

The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. Orchestrated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by MacArthur "genius" and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this collection of essays and historical vignettes includes some of the most outstanding journalists, thinkers, and scholars of American history and culture--including Linda Villarosa, Jamelle Bouie, Jeneen Interlandi, Matthew Desmond, Wesley Morris, and Bryan Stevenson. Together, their work shows how the tendrils of 1619--of slavery and resistance to slavery--reach into every part of our contemporary culture, from voting, housing and healthcare, to the way we sing and dance, the way we tell stories, and the way we worship. Interstitial works of flash fiction and poetry bring the history to life through the imaginative interpretations of some of our greatest writers.

The 1619 Project ultimately sends a very strong message: We must have a clear vision of this history if we are to understand our present dilemmas. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and trying as hard as we can to understand its powerful influence on our present, can we prepare ourselves for a more just future.

Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discussing The 1619 Project.

02/02/2022

OSU-STW Weather alert: Due to inclement weather, campus offices will not be open and classes are canceled for Stillwater, Tulsa & online Wednesday and Thursday.

Stay safe and follow these cold weather tips: okla.st/2rhri

02/01/2022

Stillwater and the African American History

Join us for our first Business of the year. As we celebrate Black History Month, we would like to know how we could help support our fellow black-owned businesses and be more of an inclusive community. We are excited to have Reverend Calvin W. Miller of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, as he shares African American History and how it pertains to Stillwater.

Reverend Miller was a scholarship football player at Oklahoma State University, as a Defensive Linemen. While he was a student athlete at Oklahoma State University during 1973 – 1974, he served as Associate Minister under the late Rev. Willard Dallas at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church.

Rev. Miller has spent his life developing young men as football players at the following: Oklahoma State University, Tulsa University; University of Kentucky; University of Central Oklahoma; Southern Nazarene University and Langston University – where he currently serves as Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator.

Rev. Miller was called to pastor the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Stillwater in March of 2001, where he continues to serve to this day. In 2018 he was awarded the Merv Johnson Integrity Award by the Oklahoma Coaches Association, Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, and in November 2021, he was placed in the Oklahoma FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) Hall of Fame.

Stillwater and the African American History Join us for our first Business of the year. As we celebrate Black History Month, we would like to know how we could help support our fellow black-owned businesses and be more of an inclusive community. We are excited to have Reverend Calvin W. M...