"on the last day of the world, I would want to plant a tree"

Franklinia is one of our rarest and most attractive trees. The story of its loss may tell us a lot about averting tree extinction.

Artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.

A Black man like me is not supposed to love Oklahoma. But in studying my home state’s history of violence, theft and wild ambitions, I learned to reckon with its legacy

A tropical tree in the north

I have to admit, I like researching a topic; digging in, constructing a concept, much more than I enjoy the process of trying to make sense of it and actually writing. Once I've exhausted myself, like a hunter-gatherer foraging through newspapers, thesis and archives–both virtual and physical–I feel satiated and spent and then I look at the sunset and remember... "there's a kind of a magic in simply looking at the sky"

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

In America, we don’t bow to kings—and we don’t fight fascism with costume parties. We fight it by organizing, disrupting, building community, and standing in global solidarity with those resisting opp...

On Memorial Day 2025, via a social media post, Russell Cobb added to the brew that is part of Tulsa's sordid past. You can read a few of Dr. Cobb's stories on Medium and find details of his latest book "Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land". His instagram post, like much of his his storytelling puts him squarely in the middle of the story, a technique that serves his provocative writing style. I wanted to share a bit of the research I had conducted in 2019 on the Tulsa Outrage.