Republican Rep. JJ Humphrey admits his police anti-doxxing bill has gaps that law enforcement has exploited two years after I first brought those concerns to him as a journalist. Now a sheriff in Oklahoma is going after a police whistleblower. #indepthwithdeonpodcast

"You're just a token": Dr. George Henderson says good tokens are able to open the doors "for the next one and the next one." Over a six-decade career at the University of Oklahoma, he's opened thousands of doors for the Black folks who come after him. #indepthwithdeonpodcast

"We enslaved Black people in the 19th Century," Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Hoskin Jr. says, describing the role enslaved Black people, later known as Cherokee Freedmen, played in building the economy of the Cherokee Nation.
#cherokeenation #cherokeefreedmen #indepthwithdeonpodcast

Tulsa’s Tyrance Billingsley II, a son of Greenwood, is leading the transformation of Black Wall Street into a premier Black tech hub. Don’t call it a comeback. Call it Black Tech Street.

#new episode drops this Friday anywhere you get your podcasts.

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Tulsa’s Sheyda Brown says Oklahoma education should focus on reading, not bibles in the classroom.

10 DAYS until the relaunch of #indepthwithdeonpodcast

Full episodes on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcast, and @thebwstimes.bsky.social starting Friday, Jan. 24.

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I spoke with Sheyda Brown, deputy director of the Terence Crutcher Foundation, about how Tulsa elected its first Black mayor, a progressive Democrat, in some precincts that Trump won by over 60%.

Out now early on Patreon or everywhere after the inauguration in January! #indepthwithdeonpodcast