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as Ben Herbert, discusses what happened when he wore a BLM shirt to school in Oklahoma. Two Oklahoma elementary school students were pulled out of their classrooms last week and forced to spend the remainder of the day in an administrative office after they came to school wearing “Black Lives Matter” T-shirts, the New York Timesreported on Sunday. Bentlee Herbert, 8, and Rodney Herbert, 5, who are brothers, were removed from separate classes in the Ardmore school district because the superintendent said that political attire would “not be allowed at school,” the children’s mother...

By: News 9 Some Ardmore parents are upset after an elementary school made a student turn their Black Lives Matter shirt inside out. When Jordan Herbert sent her 7-year-old son Ben Stapleton to school at Charles Evans Elementary in a Black Lives Matter t-shirt last Friday, she said it wasn’t to make a statement or cause problems. However, when school officials saw the shirt, they made Ben turn it inside out for the rest of the day. “And pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shirt out and then I just started playing again,” Ben said.

  An 8-year-old Black elementary student in Oklahoma was punished for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to school, his mother says. Ben Stapleton wore the BLM shirt last week at Charles Evans Elementary School in Ardmore and was instructed by the principal to turn the shirt inside out during P.E. class, according to local outlet KXII. But when Stapleton wore the shirt again, the child was allegedly taken out of class and forced to sit in the principal’s office for hours in what his mother described as "modern-day segregation."  “They pulled me out of P.E. and told me to put my shir...

For eighty years, the state historical society had two thick ledgers in its possession that went largely unnoticed by anyone other than researchers who knew what they were looking for. The ledgers belonged to a private organization and included details about the men who'd attended meetings of that organization, including their names, addresses, professions and whether they'd paid their membership dues. "The sort of thing you would expect any organization to keep," explains Jason Hanson, chief creative officer and director of interpretation and research at History Colorado, "but then you know...

Photo of the author courtesy of Miles Simmons Powell “Say it again!” I yelled, staring Billy T. down. Though there was a hot, prickly itching behind my eyes, they stayed dry. He chanted in a taunting schoolyard singsong. “N**ger, N**ger, N****ggger.” I was 11 years old in Boulder, Colorado, the only Black kid in the schoolyard. All the kids gathered around to watch me cry. Again.                                                                     ***  As a little girl, I didn’t know I was Black. Not until I was 9 or...