Capitol event celebrates the Black history 'we are still making today'

OKLAHOMA CITY — Rep. Monroe Nichols was the first person in his family born after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the first to grow up in a country where segregation was no longer legal and the playing field for Black Americans presumably had been leveled. But centuries of racial inequity can still be found in systems of housing, employment and education, Nichols said, which requires an honest conversation about the past and how it affects the present. “There’s a push right now to ignore history, but I wish...