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Next Generation Radio, The Indigenous Journalists Association, OSU School of Media & Strategic Communications and KOSU are seeking college and early-career journalists for 2023 NPR NextGenRadio: Indigenous.
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If you ask Chickasaw linguist Joshua Hinson what his favorite Chickasaw word is, he’ll grin and open his dictionary. His finger will slide past the entry where his Chickasaw name, Lokosh, is listed and point to the word just below.
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Josiah Jones is an enrolled Chickasaw citizen who traces his ancestry back to seven other Native American tribes. He’s also a young artist and filmmaker, who has taken a winding journey to become the man he is today.
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Tricia Fields Alexander is a Native American business owner and an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She serves traditional foods that include cornbread, grape dumplings and various meat roasts.
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Next Generation Radio, Native American Journalists Association and KOSU have announced the cohort for the 2022 NAJA-NPR NextGenRadio: Indigenous.
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What started out as giving friends haircuts in high school turned into a successful profession for Willie Sells. As the owner of Tee's Barber Shop in Greenwood, Sells cuts hair and also provides a safe space for the Black community to gather. His six-decades-long barbering career is a testament to what Black success looks like in Greenwood.
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Dwight Eaton is a descendant of a Tulsa Race Massacre survivor. He thought he’d left Tulsa for good after growing up in a still-segregated city. But decades later, he moved back to start Black Wall Street Liquid Lounge, a coffee shop in Greenwood, where he hopes to continue his family’s legacy.
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The Rev. Robert Turner leads a chapel that saved the lives of Black Tulsans 100 years ago. It’s now at the forefront of a fight for reparations.
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Sean Thomas is a PhD student at Oklahoma State University, where he's gone through the pain-staking process of adding nearly 600 pages of handwritten property ownership records into a mapping program. He hopes the end result will be able to accurately show how the Greenwood District has been transformed in the past 100 years.
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Carlos Moreno spent much of the last two decades collecting stories and discovering a treasure trove of information on Tulsa's Greenwood District. Those have now all been compiled into his new book, The Victory of Greenwood. He hopes that by telling the stories of those who lived in the district that readers will see them as more than just names on a page.