This is an article from July 20, 2020 Omaha World Herald Congressman John Lewis was a friend of mine for 40 years. I mourn the passing of my dear friend, who was 80. In 1980, after moving to Atlanta, I became a part of the inner circle of the civil rights community there. Later, I […]
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The content is from Omaha World Herald by Preston Love Jr. / World-Herald community columnist This week, I’m writing about economics, and all of its elements, including the impact of investments financially and otherwise. Slavery (free labor) was the first jolt to the economics of black folks. Later came the massacres in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921), and Rosewood,
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The content is from Omaha World Herald by Preston Love Jr. / World-Herald community columnist As a native of Omaha with years of accumulated wisdom as to the plight of my beloved race, I have a responsibility to speak up during these tumultuous times. I do not have the right, however, to speak for my
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The content is from Omaha World Herald by Preston Love Jr. / World-Herald community columnist Noted African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois more than a century ago wrote of the “peculiar indifference” to the magnitude of human suffering brought about by racial disparities in health outcomes. We are currently suffering from not one, but two
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