Democrat John Ewing Jr. is set to become the next mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, making history as the city’s first Black mayor.
Aurora Public Schools has addressed the issue of a pair of high school students and their proud display of white supremacist hate.
The recent Supreme Court ruling will restore voting rights to approximately 7,000 individuals in the state, enabling them to participate in this crucial election.
It began with one student calling their child the n-word, but other Klan cadets joined in, calling him the n-word and a baboon while making monkey noises at him similar to the white Ole Miss frat bro who went viral after making monkey noises at a Black woman in video footage celebrated at the Republican National Convention last week.
Political powerhouse Symone D. Sanders-Townsend was honored with a street naming in her hometown.
Media visionary Cathy Hughes will be inducted into the Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame for her pivotal contributions.
White folks in Nebraska went to the state's capitol carrying military weapons to demonstrate their right to bear arms.
On Tuesday, U.S. Marshals arrested a 12-year-old Nebraska boy who was wanted in connection with a shooting that left a 31-year-old man dead. Jarrell Milton, pictured above, disappeared after the June 29 incident. He was found almost 400 miles away from the Omaha park where Jamymell Ray was killed during what was supposed to be […]
OMAHA, Neb. — A doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia – the third American aid worker sickened with the virus – arrived Friday at a Nebraska hospital for treatment. SEE ALSO: Protect and Serve: Cop Ignores Mom When He Stumbles Upon Kidnapping Officials at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha have said […]
A Norfolk, Neb., Independence Day float stirred up quite a bit of controversy for depicting Barack Obama’s presidential library as a dilapidated outhouse. The float took the blatant presidential degradation a step further by depicting a likeness of our nation’s leader as a zombie-like creature who stood outside the makeshift building guarding it, according to The Omaha World-Herald. SEE ALSO: […]
A report recently released by a Washington organization that researches the effects and toll of gun violence found that Nebraska has the highest Black homicide victimization in the country. The Violence Policy Center‘s (VPC) annual study, “Black Homicide Victimization in the United States: An Analysis of 2011 Homicide Data,” notes that this trend is a […]
Although predominately White Nebraska has experienced a growth in racial diversity, the change in numbers also highlights how women of color in the state are suffering under the weight of health concerns impacted by a lack of adequate care. A three-year study from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services released late last week […]
