Culture
Armless boy draws courage for Uganda and the world
(Editor's Note: NonDoc reporter Jack Fowler is also a musician, painter and a volunteer for the local nonprofit Pros for Africa. The organization supports...
Imagine the day-to-day life of the Q Shaman
This might be a lukewarm take at this point, but what the country and world witnessed on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol was simply...
Making the case for school gardens as classrooms
TISHOMINGO — Gardening should be taught in schools, and not just because food is kind of important.
School gardens have been tied to higher standardized test...
A New York kind of love poem: ‘Just for two’
Just for two
by James Coburn
Just for two
this quiet morning avenue
Last night
New York City sang our song
in midnight blue as we danced along
Now Sunday morning...
Thoughtful, funny Reservation Dogs highlights ‘Indians in unexpected places’
For a college course at the University of Oklahoma, I read the book Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip Deloria. The paper I turned...
Boren on SAE scandal one year later: ‘Only way to stop racism in America is to have zero tolerance’
One year ago today, a media circus descended upon the University of Oklahoma after video of a racist chant by a top-tier national fraternity member went...
Quik Trip in OKC means delicious competition
Why does Tulsa have two Whole Foods stores anyway, while Oklahoma City only has one? Perhaps the answer lies in the aisles of a...
Jim Thompson wrote ‘hard-boiled existential noir’
Imagine it is the early 1950s, and you are preparing to board a Greyhound for a three-hour trip. You need something to help pass...
Meet George Milburn, a forgotten Oklahoma writer
Oklahoma produced several writers of note during the 1930s, when the state was thought to yield only dust and immigrants. Most of them were...
‘Ma’am, being deaf is not a death sentence’
(Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a three-part series on living with disability titled “Biting Hearing Aids.” Read part one here and part...
