Caleb Gayle
Contributor at The New York Times
contributing writer @nytmag | prof. @Northeastern | @RadInstitute Fellow | words in other places | author of We Refuse to Forget NOW IN PAPERBACK LINK BELOW
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2 weeks ago |
theparisreview.org | Caleb Gayle
By Caleb Gayle June 12, 2025 “This is Goshen,” my mother and father would frequently say. The idea—that our home was the equivalent of the Biblical land of Goshen from Exodus—was simple, perhaps, but it said as much about my parents’ perceptions of the outside world as it did about their vision for our home.
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Dec 16, 2024 |
theatlantic.com | Caleb Gayle
Boley is easy to miss. The flat vista of eastern Oklahoma is briefly interrupted by a handful of homes and some boarded-up buildings, the extent of the tiny town. In its heyday, Boley was a marvel of the Plains, a town built by and for Black people that attracted visitors and media attention from across the country. But now its businesses are defunct, and the steady outflow of young people has left behind an aging population of only about 1,000 people.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Caleb Gayle
If the U.S. Supreme Court is ultimately where Oklahoma's school fight is settled, it has also been an inspiration for the battle itself. The archdiocese found direction in three previous cases brought before the court when it was considering possible models for a new school, according to Brett Farley, the executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, a public-policy advocacy group. Farley rattled off the cases to me effortlessly. In 2017, the court ruled in Trinity Lutheran Church v.
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May 20, 2024 |
theemancipator.org | Caleb Gayle
On a morning in April, Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, and Viola Fletcher, 110, arrived with immutable resolve at the chambers of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. They were there to appeal the dismissal of their reparations lawsuit against the city of Tulsa and others they allege were involved in the Tulsa Race Massacre, a racist and violent campaign waged in 1921 upon Black residents of Tulsa’s prosperous Greenwood community, which had been affectionately dubbed Black Wall Street.
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Feb 6, 2024 |
newsbreak.com | Caleb Gayle
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