University of Oklahoma athletes led a march and stood in silence two days after OU’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was banned from campus because of members chanting racial slurs. An OU women’s soccer player and two executive members of OU Unheard, a group of black students who promote change, describe their reactions to the video. (By Arianna Pickard)

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David Fritze

Fritze was executive editor of Oklahoma Watch from November 2012 to August 2020. Before then, he worked at The Arizona Republic for 20 years in various positions, including business, metro and national...