Examining everyday discourses of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City: (Re)Framing racial origin myths across received chronotopes.

The article examines the everyday discourses of the Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City Chapter (BLM OKC) through digital ethnography and discourse analysis, focusing on how local narratives align with the broader Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. (BLM Global) agenda. Analyzing 163 Facebook posts, follower comments, and interviews, the study finds that BLM OKC's discourse employs framing to facilitate sensemaking of police brutality and systemic racism, effectively challenging and (re)framing dominant racial origin myths and chronotopes—concepts linking narratives to specific times and spaces—in U.S. history. The chapter's discourse connects past and present racial injustices, counters nostalgic myths of a "great" America, and amplifies calls for equity, justice, and systemic change at the grassroots level, demonstrating a coordinated and ideologically complex local articulation of the global movement's goals.