The new Vanguart Production House is providing a safe space for African-American artists to create here in OKC. Actors discussed the tough challenges they face finding work, as well as the tough subjects they tackle in Vanguart's first play.
Midnight Basketball attracts kids from all over the metro each week, and it continues to promote positivity and reduce crime.
Oklahoma City's newest council member is bridging the gap between communities to connect black elected officials with their constituents.
The Oklahoma City Ballet is teaming up with the Boys and Girls Club to find the community's next stars.
Juneteenth celebrations are happening across the state, but a tribe is now joining the African-American community in Shawnee to make their event bigger than ever before.
Despite recent technological advances in medicine, pregnancy-related complications are killing twice as many women now than 25 years ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rates are even worse in the black community.
The Bridge Conference held Thursday brought together a variety of community members to better understand why some Oklahoma City populations are not living as long as others.
A new project is taking shape to highlight historic landmarks across Northeast Oklahoma City. It is called BlackSpace Oklahoma, and organizers plan to merge our past with our future.
OSU just unveiled a statue of its first African-American graduate, Nancy Randolph Davis, which will now be a permanent reminder of all the accomplishments she achieved.
A recent donation of feminine hygiene products to a school in Shawnee is making a big impact in the lives of girls there. Pleasant Grove caters to mostly Native American students, and the help is especially needed in their community.
Across America, the people who first walked this land are still experiencing the violent remnants of colonialism. Unsolved murder cases and disappearances plague the Native community to this day.
A growing local poetry movement is expanding its reach to the next generation.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month across the country, but October 3 marked the 5th Annual American Indian Domestic Violence Awareness Day of Unity.
A local poetry event is celebrating its first anniversary, and over the past year it has grown to inspire dozens of young people to express themselves through spoken word.
Sixty years ago this month, a group of black students walked into the segregated Katz drug store in Oklahoma City and sat at the lunch counter, waiting to be served.
For the past 20 years, Oklahoma has remained among the nation's worst for domestic violence statistics, but some groups within our state are suffering even more than others.
On this 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we're beginning a new series.
News 9's Jessi Mitchell shows how the teacher walkout is having a greater impact in minority communities. For parents who are single or working more than one job to provide for their children, paying for childcare while school is out simply isn't an option.