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Oklahoma City Black History Mobile App launch with keynote speaker Bob Dotson
February 15, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
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Emmy-winning storyteller Bob Dotson will be the keynote speaker for the February launch of a mobile app designed to familiarize people with Oklahoma City’s Black history. The free app will be introduced at the Oklahoma History Center from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 15. Visitors can enjoy a photo exhibit, door prizes, and live jazz music.
Program schedule:
11 a.m. to 12 p.m. registration, music by Jahruba, and mingle
12 to 12:45 p.m. speakers
12:45 to 3 p.m. collective jazz band, application overview
Dotson, who began his broadcasting career at WKY in Oklahoma City, won his first National Emmy Award for “Through the Looking Glass Darkly,” which chronicled the lives of Blacks in territorial Oklahoma and their contributions following statehood.
The mobile app tour is a development of Oklahoma Black Living Legacy (OBLL), a nonprofit founded in 2020 to raise awareness of and preserve the state’s Black history, artifacts, and living legacies. OBLL volunteers researched the app with staff and volunteers at the Oklahoma History Center. An Oklahoma Historical Society Preservation Grant and other sponsors helped fund the project.
According to Doris Youngblood, executive director, the organization’s goal is “to foster understanding and pride throughout generations.”
