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Bills regulating vaccinations were among the most popular filed in the Oklahoma legislature this year and already lawmakers are indicating the extent to which they will go in establishing vaccine policy.

Oklahoma's senior U.S. Senator James Inhofe has announced plans to retire, bringing to a close a long and storied political career that began in 1967. Inhofe has served in the U.S. Senate since 1994 and is the Ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Inhofe plans to remain in the Senate until January 3, 2023.

The KGOU Readers Club begins an extended focus on important books related to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The first selection is Randy Krehbiel's 'Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre.'

Oklahoma students could go their entire educational experience without hearing about the Tulsa Race Massacre in school. That’s beginning to change as more people recognize the importance of teaching children about this shameful chapter of Oklahoma history. 'Opal’s Greenwood Oasis' is a children’s book meant to introduce the history of Greenwood to the very young.

While rejecting 32 of the 33 petitions filed by the State of Oklahoma regarding its 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, the U.S. Supreme Court set an April hearing date for further consideration of the effect of the decision on the federal Major Crimes Act.

The KGOU Readers Club rounds out its special look into important books related to the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100th anniversary of the destruction of Black Wall Street approaches. This week, Dr. Karlos K. Hill, author of 'The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History.'

KGOU managing editor Logan Layden is joined by OU professor and author Rilla Askew, who wrote the novel 'Fire In Beulah', a fictionalized work that dramatizes the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the events leading up to it.

A majority of Oklahoma legislators celebrated Oklahoma's newest law that criminalizes abortion and makes the medical procedure virtually impossible to obtain. Arguably, it's the strictest such law in the nation, but additional anti-abortion legislation is also moving closer to passage.

Airdate: Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 12 p.m.

Oklahoma made national news this week with passage of one of the most restrictive and punitive anti-abortion bills in the nation, which Governor Kevin Stitt is expected to sign. The bill's progress to final passage caught some lawmakers and political insiders by surprise.

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