Crossroads Mall through the years 📸

Good morning, Oklahoma!

Here's what you need to know today:

🌞 Temperature check: Partly sunny with possible thunderstorms in Oklahoma City today and a high of 87 degrees, low of 69, according to AccuWeather

📅 Today in History: In 1881, Sioux leader Sitting Bull surrendered to the U.S. Army at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory, in exchange for amnesty for himself and his people five years after the death of Lt. Col. George A. Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

News you can use 📰

• 👀 ICYMI: How Ryan Walters went from ‘excited’ to ‘disgusted’ over education standards he helped create
• 📸 Oklahoma City history: A look at Crossroads Mall through the years
• 🎬 This moment during filming 'Twisters' became a core memory for Anthony Ramos
• 🏈 OU football predicted to finish eighth in SEC preseason media poll

If you only read one thing today:

Chinese immigrant laborers suffering abuse in OK marijuana underworld

On the morning of April 12, the farmworker woke up struggling to breathe and delirious with fever.

Jiaai Zeng had spent the past month working nonstop at a marijuana farm in Oklahoma run by fellow Chinese immigrants. The job was brutal, the 57-year-old had told relatives in New York. He said his bosses made him labor up to 15 hours a day in the blast-furnace heat of a greenhouse. He was feeling awful even after a visit to the doctor, so he planned to return to New York that evening for medical treatment.

At 9:38 a.m., Zeng sent an audio message to a cousin in Manhattan’s Chinatown. In an agonized whisper, he asked her to buy a bag of oranges for when he arrived.

“I don’t want to eat anything,” he said, speaking a dialect of Fujian province. “I just want to take a look at oranges and see if I’ll have an appetite.”

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