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Oprah Calls for Day When No One Has to Say ‘Me Too’

By Taryn Finley Oprah Winfrey assured women and girls everywhere that “time is up” for men in power who have silenced them during her history-making speech at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards.

The media mogul – who holds many titles, including actress, TV host, producer, author and philanthropist – became the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille award during Sunday’s ceremony. During her acceptance speech, Winfrey recalled sitting on the floor in her childhood home watching Sidney Poitier become the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Actor.

“I’d never seen a black man being celebrated like that. And I tried many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl, a kid watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door bone-tired from cleaning other people’s houses,” she recalled.

“In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B. DeMille award right here at the Golden Globe awards and it is not lost on me that at this moment, there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award.”

She also spoke about the power of the press in revealing corruption and injustices, then shifted the focus to the biggest topic of the evening: sexual harassment.

“What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool that we all have, and I’m especially proud of all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their stories,” she said.

“I want, tonight, to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like mother, had children to feed and dreams to pursue,” she continued.

“They’re the women whose names we’ll never know.”

Winfrey [referenced] Recy Taylor, a black woman from Alabama who was abducted while walking home from church and raped by six white men in 1944, when she was 24 years old. Taylor’s case, which was investigated by NAACP staffer Rosa Parks, never went to trial and she never received justice. Taylor died 10 days prior to the Golden Globes at age 97.

“She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. For

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too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men, but their time is up,” she said, as the audience cheered.

Winfrey sent a message to those girls watching her accept the award and called for them to usher in a safer future free of sexual harassment.

“I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon!” she said. “And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say ‘Me Too’ again.”

This is Winfrey’s first time receiving an award at the Golden Globes, though she was nominated for her role in “The Color Purple” in 1986 and again in 2008 as producer on the Best Motion Picture, Drama contender “The Great Debaters.”

Each year, the Cecil B. DeMille award recognizes an individual for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.” Winfrey’s long-lasting career, community engagement and impactful influence reflect why the media mogul is deserving of this award.

Winfrey first gained widespread [prominence] with her popular local morning talk show, which propelled her to hosting her groundbreaking syndicated show “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” She hosted that program for 25 years.

In film, she’s prioritized giving black stories a platform and telling them in meaningful, multifaceted ways. She landed her first acting role in 1985′s “The Color Purple.” She went on to star in and/or produce culturally significant features including “Beloved,” “Lee Daniel’s The Butler,” “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” “Selma” and “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

Winfrey will also be starring in Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming “A Wrinkle in Time,” which premieres in March.

In addition to her career in front of the camera, Winfrey reigns as founder of O, The Oprah Magazine, Harpo Studios and the Oprah Winfrey Network, known for its hit series “Queen Sugar,” “Greenleaf” and “Super Soul Sundays.”

Winfrey’s impact on the entertainment industry cannot be overstated.

Legendary North Omaha community activist Vanessa Ward will announce her candidacy for the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor of Nebraska during a press conference Monday evening (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) in the North Ballroom of the Livestock Exchange Building in South Omaha.

The announcement will be made at approximately 7:30 p.m. If elected, Ward will be the first female African American governor in American history.

Living on a fixed income, Ward will challenge Governor Pete Ricketts, one of the wealthiest men in America. He is the son of T.D. Ameritrade founder, Joe Ricketts, and brother of Chicago Cubs owner, Tom Ricketts. Forbes Magazine estimates the family’s net worth at $2.1 billion. According to financial reports Ward provided to state and federal oversight bodies, Governor Ricketts has spent over $12 million of his own money on his campaigns, and over $500,000 on other campaigns in support of his political agenda.

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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor In a deal that reestablishes Essence magazine as a totally Black and independently owned entity, Sundial Brands founder Richelieu Dennis recently announced the purchase of Essence Communications from Time Inc. The Essence Communications deal also comes a week after Dennis was knighted in his native Liberia by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who admitted him into the Most Venerable Order of the Knighthood of the Pioneer with the Grade of Knight Commander.

Sirleaf reportedly described Dennis as an Dennis “Awesome Hero.”

“Talk about surreal,” Dennis said in an interview with NNPA Newswire. “I can’t even bring myself to say [knighthood]. It’s been a phenomenal week.”

Dennis said that the purchase of Essence Communications comes with a deep-seated passion and commitment to making sure that, “we are doing everything we can to leverage the power of the business to impact our community in a positive way and to demonstrate that we can run highlyprofitable organizations.”

Dennis continued: “We can also leverage the impact and the resources that those businesses generate to drive economic empowerment and social justice in our communities for ourselves and by ourselves.”

Dorothy Leavell, the chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and the publisher of the Crusader Newspaper Group, said that it was good news to hear that ownership of Essence magazine has returned to the Black community.

“I hope it’s a trend,” said Leavell. “We do need strong Black ownership in our industry, even as I’m expecting that our Black newspapers will prosper in 2018.”

Leavell also said that she hopes that Black entrepreneurs will see the work and products of the Black Press and “seek to restore some light.”

Leavell added: “We need more and more publications that depict us in a positive way and that’s certainly what ‘Essence’ has done in the past and I hope they will continue.”

While financial terms of the Essence Communications purchase weren’t disclosed, Dennis said he’s not only retaining Essence President Michelle Ebanks, who will continue to run the company, but Ebanks will also join the organization’s board of directors and lead an all-Black executive team at Essence, who will have equity stakes in the business.

“I’m overwhelmed with gratitude,” Ebanks told the NNPA Newswire. “The ‘Essence’ brand…has always had a special place in the hearts and minds of Black women and entrepreneurs and leaders like [Dennis] recognized ‘Essence’ and its importance and wants to restore it. This has allowed a dream to come true and we couldn’t be happier.”

Ebanks said that it was an extraordinary and special privilege to be part of an organization that would be responsible for elevating Black women in the industry.

Dennis said the deal to purchase Essence came together rather quickly after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about Time Inc.’s intention to sell the company.

“The stars aligned. We started to think about the implications of what this would mean if ‘Essence’ were truly bought back into the community and the impact it could have on the audience and on the industry to be able to create our content and to monetize our own content,” said Dennis. “There was never a waiver in the commitment on what ‘Essence’ means to our community.”

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the president and CEO of the NNPA, congratulated Richelieu Dennis for purchasing Essence magazine and for returning this iconic publication to 100 percent Black ownership.

“This is a very timely and an important milestone for the Black Press in America and throughout the world,” said Chavis. “Essence magazine, under the able leadership of Michelle Ebanks, is a valued treasure of Black America and the NNPA acknowledges, with supportive gratitude, Richelieu Dennis for this significant Black-owned business transaction.”

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On Monday, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine will once again honor the life and work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a keynote presentation by Willie Barney, founder and president of the Empowerment Network.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Clarkson Tower, Lower Storz Pavilion. Barney’s presentation is sponsored by UNMC and Nebraska Medicine.

For more than 25 years, Barney has worked in strategic planning, marketing, communications, community building and facilitation. In 2006, he launched the Empowerment Network, a collaborative of residents, leaders, and organizations working to improve the economic condition and quality of life for AfricanAmericans, north Omaha residents and the greater Omaha area.

Barney graduated with a double major in economics and business administration from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. A strong supporter of lifelong learning, he has continued his education through advanced leadership training including, the Summer Leadership Institute for Community Development at Harvard University and Executive Leadership and Management Training at the Northwestern University Media Center in Chicago.

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He and his wife, Yolanda, are actively involved in their church as associate pastors and ministers and they have two children. Their focus, passion and purpose is working together with others to see the community and each person reach their full potential.”

Food and beverages are available for the first 150 people. Keyboardist Nate Asad and drummer Billy Foeman Quartey will provide musical accompaniment.

Parking for off campus visitors is available in Lot 63, located at 40th and Marcy streets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A shuttle will run between Clarkson Tower and Lot 63 from 11 a.m. to noon and again from 1-2 p.m.

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Youth-led Service Project to Honor MLK Memory On Monday, in an effort to pay tribute to the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., middle school students from Partnership 4 Kids (P4K) youth mentoring program, and college students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Thompson Learning CAommunity (TLC), will team up once again to complete a service project benefitting Together Inc. From 7:30-11:30 a.m. at Together Inc., 812 S. 24th St., the group of students will host a pancake breakfast for the public.

There is no cost to attend this event, but free-will donations are strongly encouraged and will support Alliance for a Better Omaha nutrition education programming provided for food pantry clients.

This event is the culmination of a larger service project focused on improving the lives of those living in poverty. This is the fourth year in a row that this annual student-led endeavor has taken place. The group began working together to develop this year’s anti-poverty campaign earlier this fall. They implemented phase one of this community campaign by holding food and clothing drives at stores across the city on the Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving.

UNO Students, Community to Give Back on MLK Day

University of Nebraska Omaha students and community members will honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy with a day of service on Monday. Community partners include the Siena Francis House, Habitat for Humanity, Catholic Charities, Omaha Street School, and many more.

Volunteers will help the organizations by assisting with construction projects, janitorial work, and organizing donations.

The daily schedule: • 8:30 a.m. – Check-In: sign up for a service project and eat breakfast • 9 a.m. – Shuttle service provided from UNO to service project sites • 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. – Serve at service project site • 1 p.m. – Shuttle service provided from service project sites back to UNO • 1:30 p.m. – Lunch at UNO Participation in UNO’s MLK Day of Service is open to all community members both at UNO and across the Omaha metro area. Volunteers are encouraged to RSVP online. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to all who participate.

MLK Day of Service is coordinated by UNO’s Office of Civic and Social Responsibility.

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LOCAL NEWS/NATIONAL NEWS THE OMAHA STAR Page Three Creighton Names Inaugural Vice Provost Stelly to Present Paper at Birmingham NUSA Confab for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion Triple One Neighborhood and Association founding director Matthew Stelly has been approved to deliver a paper at the 2018 Neighborhoods USA Conference in Birmingham, Ala., in May. This will be Stelly’s sixth presentation at the national conference.

Stelly’s paper and workshop presentation is titled, “The Neighborhood Directory: Purpose, Problems and Prospects.”

For more information on the conference, contact Dave Fanslau at the city planning department, 402-444-5150, or the Birmingham Conference Coordinator at 205-254-2363.

GoFundMe: Omaha Star Accepts #BlackPantherChallenge Redwood City, Calif. – New York resident Frederick Joseph launched a GoFundMe to take Harlem children to see “Black Panther” in theaters next month. In just a few days, he raised over $30,000. Now he has announced the #BlackPantherChallenge to ask others to start a GoFundMe in their community to take more kids to watch “Black Panther” in the theater.

“All children deserve to believe they can save the world, go on wild adventures, or accomplish the impossible. Today I am announcing the #BlackPantherChallenge.

I am challenging you to start a GoFundMe to buy tickets for kids in your city to see ‘Black Panther,’” wrote Joseph on his GoFundMe. “If you’re a teacher, buy tickets for your entire classroom. If you’re a coach, take your team. If you’re a community leader, do some

organizing and get the kids and parents in your community to the theater.”

To date, Joseph’s campaign has raised over $30,000 from 760 donors from all 50 states.

Donations have ranged from $5 to $10,000.

The Omaha Star has accepted the challenge with plans to take students 13-18 years old to see “Black Panther.”

Those who want to donate should visit our Facebook page. More specific information will be published in the Jan. 26 issue.

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Minority Teen Girls Apply for Summer Programs at Princeton University

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New York, NY – Comradery, a safe haven to share, celebrity speakers, and black girl empowerment are the reasons why each year hundreds of young minority girls vie for one of 50 spots in the At the Well Young Women’s Leadership Academy.

The summer enrichment program for 10th and 11th grade minority girls is in its eight straight year on the campus. A Weekend Intensive mini program is held for students in the ninth grade on the campus of Princeton University.

Planned speakers returning for 2018 include actress Nicole Ari Parker, scholar Julianne Malveaux, motivational speaker Brandi Harvey, 2016 DNC Chief Leah Daughtry, physician Michele Reed, and plus-size super model Liris Crosse.

The Academy focuses on developing strong leaders through academic, social and career components.

Girls participate in peer tutoring and small group projects that build lasting bonds. While living in the campus dorm rooms, there are ample opportunities to create meaningful relationships. The curriculum includes critical reading, essay writing, and leadership workshops. The Academy offers a safe place for students to share the challenges of daily personal and school life.

Workshop facilitators include role models from the medical, legal, financial, entertainment, and non-profit fields and have featured Financial guru Tiffany “the Budgetnista” Aliche from The Real show, QVC Inventor Lisa Ascolese, and teen acting phenomenon Eden Duncan Smith. Topics include financial literacy, body image, entrepreneurship, health and wellness, and self-esteem just to name a few.

Academics are intense and tutoring is provided nightly.

Teachers include Princeton University and college professors. Equipping students to afford the college of their dreams is discussed in a financial aid boot camp that provides practical search tools. Alumni of

Making another major step toward enhancing and celebrating its commitment to diversity, Creighton University has announced the appointment of its first Vice Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.

Christopher M. Whitt, PhD, will join the university administration Feb. 19, bringing a full and wide complement of experience in academia and as a leader in developing inclusive communities.

The new vice provost will have the opportunity to lead, champion, and implement the university’s efforts to advance its work on diversity and inclusion. Whitt arrives at Creighton having most recently served as an associate professor and department chair in the Department of Political Science at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. At Augustana, Whitt also founded and directed the Center for Inclusive Leadership and Equity.

“We eagerly anticipate Dr. Whitt’s joining with us to further Creighton’s mission and vision,” said the Rev. Daniel Hendrickson, SJ, PhD. “As a community of learners and leaders Whitt whose interests and influences expand every day, and as a local campus surrounded by a diverse community, we look forward to Dr. Whitt’s leadership as we continue to connect Creighton not only with the wider world, but also the one just outside our doorstep. Dr. Whitt is a proven leader in fostering the integral conversations about diversity and inclusion that serve to make our world a bigger, more accepting place.”

One of many sweeping initiatives outlined by Fr. Hendrickson when his tenure began, the creation of the Vice Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion post now joins with the university’s global programming, sustainability, and service learning efforts as ways Creighton is boldly seeking out new paths for its mission.

“At Creighton, we embrace the realities of the world as it is and cut new tracks to make that world a more just, compassionate, and intellectually curious place,” Fr. Hendrickson said. “We are lighting new fires in the minds of the men and women who come to our University and, we hope, preparing them to go out into the world and work for a better future for all people.”

Fulfilling a vision first laid out in his 2015 inaugural address, Fr. Hendrickson again reiterated Creighton’s move towards including a Vice Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion in the university’s recently completed strategic plan. The new Vice Provost will report to Creighton Provost Tom Murray, PhD. “Given the depth and breadth of his experience and his commitment to the ideals toward which Creighton strives, we look forward to having Dr. Whitt on the university’s administrative team,” Murray said. “This is an important step for Creighton, our students, faculty, and staff.”

In addition to his work with Augustana’s Center for Inclusive Leadership and Equity, Whitt is also a co-founder of the College’s Africana Studies Program and a representative to several faculty and community organizations. He organized Augustana’s Diversity Dissertation Fellowship Program, and has also convened, led and participated in many seminars, summits and presentations on social justice topics. His work takes place not only on campus at Augustana and in the Quad Cities community, but around the nation.

Whitt is the holder of the 2017 Fannie Lou Hamer Outstanding Community Service Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists; the 2017 Charles Toney, Sr. NAACP Civil Rights Hero Award, given by the Rock Island County NAACP; and the 2013 Anna Julia Cooper National Teacher of the Year award, also from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

the Academy have utilized these techniques to secure college scholarships, including Imani McClendon who attended and graduated from Spelman College after receiving a full scholarship AND $40,000 in aid. In addition to the academics, there are opportunities for fun social activities including a trip to New York to attend a Broadway play.

The two-week boarding Academy is one of the only summer institutes for minority teen girls held on an Ivy League campus. It is the first of its kind to commence at Princeton University. Dahnielle Milton, a 2017 alumnus wrote to her Academy professor, Maco Faniel, “I was in your Critical Reading Course [during] At The Well. As I am taking my classes this school year, I have found that I have improved on my reading skills. For the first time in forever, I am able to read books in a day and actually understand what I am reading because I am using

these techniques you have taught me. So I just wanted to thank you for helping me improve and feel more confident. I will continue to use these skills throughout my career.” To date, 100% of the Academy alumni have been accepted to college.

Jacqueline Glass, the Academy Founder and Princeton Theological Seminary alumnus states, “The Academy lives out our mission to empower young women locally to become effective leaders globally.” The Princeton University session will be held July 22-Aug. 3. The Weekend Intensive is scheduled Aug. 3-5. The application deadline for all programs is March 31. New for 2018 is a boy’s academy, From the Fire: Leadership Academy for Young Men. For more information and to apply, phone 216-262-1029 or go to www.atthewellconferences. org. Need-based financial aid is available.

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Complete the Nebraska State Historical Society Archives On June 2 representatives of the Nebraska State Historical Society took bound copies of some of the Omaha Star’s earliest issues with them to Lincoln. The five bound books will complete issues missing from the state archives for the past sixty years, ranging from September 17, 1938 through October 26, 1951.

The Mildred D. Brown Memorial Study Center (MDBMSC) Board is working with the Nebraska Historical Society to create a complete Library Archive of the past and current issues of the Omaha Star. Although many years of newspapers have been microfilmed by the Omaha Public Library and the Nebraska Historical Society, many issues are missing. We are asking readers, who may have copies of the issues that are listed, to please bring them to the Omaha Star to be microfilmed. The issues will be returned to you.

The MDBMSC was formed to continue the legacy of Mildred Brown the founder and publisher of the Omaha Star. The purpose of the Study Center is to provide area students with scholarship support and opportunities to envision career possibilities in journalism and communications through educational programs, field trips, tutoring and mentoring. They are also provided access to resources and inspirational archive materials.

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homes as you are hardly can continue to repair and buy I On Jan. 4 the of the people that no good money and invest it North Omaha now doing, save your “Dedicated to the service Boys & Girls new and old Club believe that the that evil shall not go bonds that you Club opened members. The its doors tocause shall lack a champion and wisely. Buy more Savings a new year with Omaha Star has Club staff looks if and when things new Club parents forward to beginning may be comfortable unopposed.” age appropriate been in existence for and members. programs for We offer a variety change. kids ages gram areas such seventy-two years of a former pastor of to the newspaper, Mildred as, Sports, Fitness, 6-18. We offer five core Reverend Joseph Forbes, Leadership Developmen pro- In an introduction and I have been the & Recreation, said, “Mildred was t, Education & Character & Gilbert wrote: St. John A. M. E. Church Life Skills, and publisher for the Career Developmen It is with profound pleaThe ... she made her paper t, Health To the Citizens of Omaha: from certain schools Arts. We are also offering [sic] a friend of the pastors last twenty years. It a platform. She FREE transportatio& sure that the Omaha Star Publishing Co., and available anytime we needed In order to qualify in the Omaha metro area seems like yesterday n (please well trained journalistic ministry. She believed that a paid program for this special service all Club call for a listing). organization of energetic, by saw her work as a that I started after my One entire page membership fee members this day a paper of the people, had given her a calling.

Brown God Spring program and a valid membership must have minds, give to you Mildred wish aunt now of and We here fee is $30.00 devoted to the work card. Our the people and for the people. that will be valid Club hours are its was per edition was expired. Some of submitted by from 3-8 p.m.

Jan. 4 - May the Omaha Star dedicates For more Club the churches in the community, 7. Our to have you know that and ask for Mr. you have been supthe general public in information call Dave 342-2300 existence to the task of serving the pastors.

Happy New Year Felici, Unit Director. porters almost from It shall be our policy the struggle for and we hope to Among her concerns was every way humanly possible.

Others of see you at the the start.

Brown’s primary path of duty in the behalf Club! racial equality. Mildred to move in an unerring became supporters it already had. She worked bringing to you the local Star was in selling Many others became supportfoothold in Omaha than early role in the Omaha Black America in Omaha, for equalas the years went by. sincere it, as well as the national an excellent salespermany organizations to work you I want to give my news of the city as we find of tirelessly with of ads. She was not only the National The African American ers recently. To all of backing for the welfare could use the ads as a tool She was a member of son; she found that she highlights, promoting and to ity and peace.

Career and Scholarship Achievement Council Colored People thanks. to sell newspaper ads Black America in general.

The Omaha will have its 4th for the Advancement of Fair on Saturday her activism. She refused the citizens of Omaha and the a newspaper is fascinating.

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Working journalistic black from of Publishers sea employ 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. School, 4410 because this is our paper.

(NAACP), the Black As we launch out into the of companies that did not N. 36th at North St. Those seeking Star is especially fascinating her readers to procan the support of the general League, the Urban League employment should Anyone who is interested also used editorials to encourage and she challenged National Business ture, we sincerely request and dressed for Plains Black museum.

This paper is about us. come prepared in when we as a group must military success. Lunch Nebraska, and the Great with a resume and issues. Where else test the segregation of the public. The time is at hand was will be provided. information call submit their story, events Congratulations the Martin Bomber plant During the time during which it was active, she Omaha Star a firm founda557-4470.

To RSVP or for Since the recent recession, to...the King them to apply for jobs that begin to build. Give the and also She more Science & Technology Science Fair. this State can this happen? and reading support and in Bellevue, Nebraska. for the De Porres Club, rollerStudents wrote at Offutt Air Force Base tion by way of subscribing an emotional, financial Magnet students remem- the spokeswoman in the Omaha Star building after school congratulate detailed the paper has also been in turn will build an enterpersevere.

Washington, who is widely it to meet who won awards we will assure you that we d the eight Award reports, conducted experiments and a hired Charles but we are determined to their own facility. reporter and allowed times a at for as mouthpiece support emony. Pictured a to their coaster rights, funds civil of projects for out of Excellence and presented the club ran in to contact us concerning are the Awards bered for his work prise worthy of consideration, winners and in the commua display board the annual 7th & 8th grade Alec Williams; I encourage the public who was the executive 25 first place spent countless hours working fifty commuLuke Armitage; of Excellence winners (l or even if you want to to at least two columnist. Whitney Young, force for the people of Omaha. winners with before eventu- She to r): hundred and Emily Beck; complaints, recommendations are certainly apprecithe Star as a mouthpiece of the Omaha Urban League and Katie Cramer. Nick Schultz; Ian Brummel; a Breakfast of Champions judges. The nity, receiving over one In addition to offering us. Your comments in Omaha, the secretary of the National the “Unsung Heroine director awards cerMadeleine Dangerfield including compliment community executive awards, the community nity service ally becoming for the African-American in behalf of the ; Martha Winterer; by the NAACP, one of editorials. the community to realize ated. The staff is working Award” for service awarded Urban League, contributed Gilberts also encouraged a better and more enlighten honored power 16,000 Africanboycotts to call attention only thirty-five people in the country to be and trying to always have The country’s The paper supported and is an outstanding the positive effect the buying was cater largest film Our staff is very small, and her staff were often with this award by the time of her death. She paper. if they would carefully she and have festival for you. could children and to discrimination, Americans working to satisfy including traditional, teens will be Lyndon B. Johnson as a businesses that employed team and they are always to making stop in Omaha also appointed by President their purchases only to CGI, collage support base and I wish well. beginning in January a tour stop-motion styles.

East Germany to investigate and Live Action. treated the community We have a large religious goodwill ambassador to Film Streams African-Americans and More than when tries are for the support of the churches In English. Australia; following the conpresents the Best issue of the paper, Edward express sincere thanks, represented, including ten coun- Recommend alleged human rights violations worked to improve 95 min.

Specifically, in the second of the New York Internationa clergy leaders. ed ages: 9 to adult. works from She also Australia, members of the North Omaha l in the community and the our struction of the Berlin Gilbert pointed out that (NYICFF). From Children’s Film Festival Germany, Denmark, Finland, least, I want to thank carriers and her office an ice cream shop Last but certainly not France, Jan. 9 to March the lives of the newspaper Latvia, Sweden, black community were patronizing which would be there would not be Streams’ Ruth 18, Film U.K. that someone did not have Switzerland, the Feb. 6-7, 11, 13-14, 18 — Ice Cream, advertisers. Without advertising, Sokolof Theater, and workers. If she learned of at 24th and Lake, Reed’s published. Advertisements nonprofit cinema, Omaha’s within the U.S. Tickets for all screenings Azur & Asmar Directed hiring practices over she would buy them bags an Omaha Star Newspaper enough food at home, will screen five Best targeted for their discriminatory an

by Michel Ocelot. the printing of the publicabest programs larded The newspaper carriof the for seniors, of NYICFF are $9 general, Porres Club. Gilbert spent and retail sales pay for from groceries to supply their a decade later by the De $7 advertisers have stuck with students, teachers A dazzling animated Christmas or Easter party series continues the 2009 NYICFF. The dren, shop and counted at least tions. Many of our older us. ers often received a special and chilhour outside the ice cream Film Streams’ feature about and $4.50 Newer ones have joined work, when they might approving of their Young family two Forever Members. for Film Streams boys raised as brothers, us throughout the years. adverin gratitude for their hard one hundred African-Americans and children’s who set off on that they don’t have to dangerous quest were given all year. their purchasing power. which is made program, Streams’ All screenings will occur a Others have the feeling receive the only gifts they through faraway hiring practices through we will give them and possible in part at Film find Omaha Star Ruth Sokolof lands to Gilbert divorced in 1943, of her death in 1989, the and free the port from Lincoln because as African Americans with sup- the time Edward tise the and Theater, the At at Mildred in look 30,685 located at Animation.

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Djinns. our business anyway. Omaha and Mike Fahey Founded in 1997, and had a staff of twenty, and Mildred resumed using for those who support us Mildred Brown wrote, (for- Recommend In English. France; 99 min.

NYICFF is dedicated merly Webster) Streets, Omaha Star, the longest advertising in the paper to promoting thirty-nine states. In 1969, As the publisher of the one block south ed ages: 6 to adult. from those advertisers.

Cuming Street. persist? The answer intelligent, of newspaper run by a woman, we encourage them to purchase or think our readers passionate, “Why then do Negro publishers of his press, all of provocative cinematic operating black-owned refuse More information deprived neighborhood news and works for audiences For those advertisers, who is clear. If the Negro is Mildred Brown provided ages 3-18 and on all five programs Feb. 20-21, 25, 27-28, to market to, we encourage through the years since within Best helping to define than fifty years. The paper March 4 — are not important enough NYICFF Kids the tortuous gains achieved of NYICFF commentary for more compelling f a more online and tomorrow’s Negro can Flix shop to ask those merchants by calling attention to ilm experience emancipation will be lost, at www.f ilmstreams.be found our readers when they his served an important function A kaleidoscop continue forces, they Juried by such for kids. www.gkids.

If commupowerful of the they don’t? ic collection people in the black well-known filmmakers that do not advertise Why youth will be at the mercy our tv/tour. For questions,org or animated short the accomplishments of of the John Turturro, man the ramparts of bigthe Omaha Star, I urge values. The newspaper as contact Casey films from around best Susan Sarandon, North and South that still to refuse to advertise in $$ nity and emphasizing positive Logan at 933-0259 please world, featuring Mildred Brown awards, or got Schamus, Matthew the James email their products. Remember traditional animation, individuals who received x11 or CGI, otry, prejudice and discrimination.” to do so. From readers to stop buying at recognized Modine casey@film closed been and collage, and stop-motion Sant, the festival compelled Gus streams.org. had previously persisted because she felt The schedule: speak. new jobs in industries that has been described Van civic . In English.

65 min. Recommend she had established readers, supporters, merThe New York It announced acts of by the first edition of her newspaper, Thanks again to my staff, ed ages: 3 to 8.

Times as being to African-Americans. good writers and all others They highlighted one She guided the newspa- a challenge to herself and her staff, “that no “devoted to the kind of fare chants advertisers, contributing labeled “troublemakers.” pride and community charity. not Jan. 9-10, 14, of that may be found March 6-7, 11, the continued existence eras of the Civil Rights cause shall lack a champion and that evil shall 16-17, 21 — week in order to continue Academy Awards at the Razzle through the tumultuous 13-14, 18 — who lend support to making neighborhood family per staff were but not at the Dazzle Directed On the occasion per to the demonstrations Your help is greatly appreciMildred Brown and her tiplex.” local mulby Darren Ashton. NYICFF Party Mix in to foster a sense of community. Ms. Brown again Movement, from segregation the Omaha Star possible. for late go unopposed.”

A mockument of their community, Brown to the racial unrest of the bright and continued future An all-animated ary skewering Best of NYICFF of the 1950s and 1960s, of the Star’s ninth anniversary, ated. I look forward to a the certainly champions outspoken voice in the wilderthe absurdiprogram featuring features one live-action ties of competition community, congratulated The Omaha Star reported ious, hilarcomedy and particular. She was an 1960s and early 1970s. pledged her support to the not the Star in the Omaha community.. youth dance troupe between kids on the vokingvisually stunning, and thought-pro four animated of its businesses and that occurred both locally ness that the tortuous gains of their emancipation programs, involved circuit – and the triumphs and the tragedies North Omaha on the growth shorts, specifically end. up this advice for her Mildred Brown was not are lost, and she worked tirelessly toward that hyper- older parents who intended for and throughout the nation. fast development, and offered audiences. In live through further a any get Seniors English them. titles.

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75 min. Recommend or English subAyomide Adekunle and queen at wishes to urge that you ed ages: 9 to 16.

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On Monday, January 11 on NET1 and NET-HD, Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye See page 2 for details

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City of Omaha 's Annual MLK, Jr. celebration will be at the Holland Perfor ming Arts Cente r See ad on page 10 for more information

Women of Color in Leaders

and Engage, Business Success “Power to Lead: Leverage, for the Perpetual stewardship. the theme Adopt & Deliver” was Winters advised the in Leadership steps to 3rd Annual Women of Color Awards group of eight Summit & legacy of Leadership at the Inclusion on their per25, 2010 jourLuncheon held on June Center. sonal diversity Holiday Inn Central Conventionluncheon neys; the Over 200 people attended 1. Know self first – was Marywhere the keynote speaker am I? What do I of CEO’s Who Who Quaites-Ferris, Dr. Marguerita Frances Winters, Author for? What makes (L-R) Tanya Cook, Vicki from the Heart stand Get It; Diversity Leadership Leadership Award Recipients: Winters me “me”? the of Crowder President and Soul and Washington, Annette 2. Value self – What can become? enhance who I am and gifts?

Group.

How are other ences Inclusion are my unique 5. Learn about others – What can learn from differences? circle to Ms Winters spoke on Women’s is my best self? your different from me? How today. She gave Who 4 . individuals/groups 7. Include others – Expand in the business world 3. Acknowledge your Tawanna Black and Dr. Winters continued on page 2 to sustained sucmy are they the same? examples of eight steps How do differ- See Leadership to change – What are prejudices – In what 6. Value differences – contribute to Open yourself be my best self? cess: Motivation, Passion/commitment, do I exclude? How do I opportunities to grow? To Magnitude of the ways What are my blind spots?

In-depth Inquiry, and and transforming, intolerance? gap, Resolve, Learning

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What will become one of the region’s largest incubators for food entrepreneurs, Kitchen Council, a project of the Greater Omaha Chamber and community partners, will launch Feb. 6 from 6-8 p.m. at a public gala hosted at the organization’s inaugural location, 50 Arena Way, Suite 11, Council Bluffs.

“Kitchen Council is up and running and open for business,” said Holly Benson Muller, managing director, Kitchen Council. “Community members who are passionate about food and committed to supporting local businesses will want to attend the launch event.”

Benson added Kitchen Council joins a nationally growing segment of food accelerators designed to lower barriers to market entry – a strategy that increases startup success and expands inclusivity into what some analysts are calling “the new food economy.”

According to the Specialty Food Association, that economy exceeds $100 billion annually, with food accelerators addressing the need for “foodpreneurs” to tap into a lively production space that offers collegial support, business counseling and assistance with licensing and certification.

The 2,500-square-foot Kitchen Council facility includes a fully-equipped commercial kitchen, as well as access to business-development assistance and additional resources. The startup accelerator will expand to its co-location, the PACE Hoff Family Arts and Culture Center, in 2019.

Programming for the Kitchen Council launch includes a ribbon cutting, partner and supporter remarks, a social hour with food and beverages and an opportunity to meet the original Kitchen Council makers.

Register for the event at https://www.omahachamber.org/events/kitchen-council-launch/.

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PRAISE, WORSHIP, DEVOTION, OBITUARIES & INSPIRATION

This Year: Break a bad habit Learn a new skill Do a good deed Visit a new place Read a difficult book Write something important Try a new food Do something good for someone who cannot thank you Take an important risk

Deaths & Funerals Vivian A. Evans Mrs. Vivian A. Evans, age 89, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 3, at a local care center.

Cremation Arrangements by Thomas Funeral Home. *** Rebecca Hickman Mrs. Rebecca Hickman, age 93, passed away Sunday, Dec. 24, in Kansas City, MO. Graveside Services were held 2 p.m., Thursday, Graceland Park Cemetery.

Arrangements by Thomas Funeral Home. *** Champer Jack Mr. Champer Jack, age 90, passed away Monday, Jan. 1, at a local hospital.

Survived by daughters:

Mary Helen Parker, Margory (Bryan) Bell, Carolyn (Timothy) Thompson; sisters: Birtha Parks, Omaha, Earline Langford, Chicago, IL; sister-in-law: Annie Mae Langford, Omaha; brother-in-law: Albert B. Brown, Jr., Rodeo, CA; 9 grandchildren; 21 greatgrand; nieces, nephews, other relatives.

Funeral Service 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 13, at Starlite Chateau Chapel.

Arrangements by Thomas Funeral Home. *** Ermyl Lezenby Ms. Ermyl Lezenby, age 58, passed away Sunday, Jan. 7, at a local care center.

Memorial Services were held 11 a.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 10,

Life Care Center to Honor Rev. David E. Triplett In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Life Care Center of Omaha, 6032 Ville De Sante Drive, will present a “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award” to Rev. David E. Triplett from Second Baptist Church.

The event will be on Monday Rev. Triplett at 2 p.m. and will be officiated

by Rev. John Hogan from Tabernacle Church of Christ Holiness and Rev. Anthony Williams from Second Baptist Church. Soloist Franklena Durham will perform.

Rev. Triplett is being honored for his dedicated service to the Omaha community. In October 1964, Rev. Triplett was called into the Ministry.

He was ordained and licensed in 1970. He served as Acting Pastor for Christ Temple Church of Christ Holiness and Pleasant Green Baptist church.

at Fremont Alliance Church.

Arrangements by Thomas Funeral Home. *** Ruth Maloney Mrs. Ruth Maloney, age 85, passed away Saturday, Dec. 23, at her residence.

Survived by daughters: Sandra Jakes and Shirley Smith, Omaha.

Funeral Service 11 a.m., Friday, Jan. 12, Fort Street Church of Christ, Bro Ambris Maxwell, officiating.

Interment: Mt Hope Cemetery Arrangements by Thomas Funeral Home. *** Mark Marion Jr. Mr. Mark Marion Jr. (“Scoopie”), age 62, passed away Thursday,

We know this is not a perfect world and as humans we constantly make mistakes.

However, when it comes to the Bible, there is a major difference. This book might have been transcribed by mere mortals but its content is definitely not from this world. The holy scriptures are a collection of divine messages directly inspired from an Omnipotent God and was simply recorded by ordinary men. As one of the most popular and best-selling books in the world, it’s given much reverence and respect but as our postmodern society continues to evolve in their progressive arrogance, many individuals now seem comfortable with the false notion that the Bible is not true. Psalm 19:7 declares, “The law of the Lord is perfect” and Proverbs 30:5 promises that, “Every word of God is pure.”

These heavenly claims of purity and perfection are statements of divine truth from the only one who cannot lie. Note the text doesn’t say God’s Word is “mostly” pure or scripture is “nearly” faultless which leaves no room for partial perfection theories. “God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, shall He not do it? Or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?” Numbers 23:19. We are reminded when Jesus answered Pilate and said that He had come into the world to bear witness unto the truth.

Pilate asked the question, “What is truth” and revealed that humanity is spiritually blind until God graciously opens their understanding.

In 1972, Rev. Triplett united with Second Baptist Church as Associate Minister and became Pastor of the Church on June 21, 1998.

His community outreach includes pastoring with Ministers For Change who provide worship services to Douglas County Health Center and Life Care Center of Omaha. Since 2002, he has officiated at Life Care Center of Omaha’s annual Dr. King programs and Veteran Day ceremonies. A friend to many, Rev. Triplett encourages residents to focus and strengthen their spirituality on his visits to area nursing/rehab centers. Because of his years of dedicated service he knows many and is able to help those he visits physically and emotionally as well as spiritually.

Life Care Center of Omaha invites the community to attend and share in the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Rev. Triplett’s dedication to our community. For more information, phone 402-571-6770.

age 80, passed away Sunday, Jan. 7, at a local care center.

Survived by son: Forrest A. Roper, Jr, Omaha; brother: Robert (Lavetta) Bonds; sisters: Dorothy Lee, Chicago, IL, Gloria (Robert) Easterling, Lillian McGaughy, Dayton, OH, Victoria (James) Cherry, Kansas City, MO; 4 grandchildren, 2 greatgrand, nieces, nephews, other relatives.

Funeral Service: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, Salem Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Selwyn Q. Bachus, officiating.

Interment: Westlawn Cemetery Arrangements by Thomas Funeral Home.

Was born in Gholson, Miss., on April 25, 1927.

He departed this life on Jan. 1, 2018. He was born to Lee Warren (Jack) and Hoye Jack. Champer was later a member of a blended family years before it was popular and this marital Jack union yielded 12 children.

He served in the US Army and in 1958 he wed Gertrude Brown who was the love of his life for 58 years. Champer became employed by the Cudahy Meat Packing Company and worked there until 1967 when the plant closed and remained at U.S. National Bank until he took early retirement in 1992 after a serious automobile accident.

Champer loved God and joined Cleaves Temple CME Church in his youth. He remained a member until his passing. He also believed in serving his community and actively served in the Elks, Iroquois Lodge #92, Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge Masonic Temple of

Nebraska and American Legion Post #30.

Over the years, Champer lived a full active life. He completed the requirements to obtain his electrician license, working on small appliances.

He also started a hauling business, a commercial cleaning business and finally a catering business.

At 80, he decided to somewhat retire and spend more time with his family, especially his grandchildren. From this point on, it was rare to find him without a baby in his arms or an adult wise enough to seek knowledge at his feet. He was a doting father and grandfather and spending time with his family brought him joy.

Jack was a man of integrity, love and generosity and this was reflected in his ever present smile.

He leaves to cherish loving memories, sisters, Birtha Parks, Omaha and Earline Langford, Chicago, Illinois; daughter(s) Mary Helen Parker, Marjory (Bryan) Bell and Carolyn (Timothy) Thompson; 10 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren; brother-in-law, Albert (Bonnie) Brown, sister-in-law, Annie Mae Langford and a host of nieces, nephews, other family friends and his church family.

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So, where does this leave the Christian who places their faith in the Bible as being the absolute truth? There can be no agreement or compromise with the agnostic or the deist who believes that God does not care or intervene in the affairs of mankind. If we submit to the worldview that many of the Biblical is extremely important because the truth does matter. Accounts are not literal, we are left holding a mystery novel instead of the greatest revelation ever given to the world. Psalm 12:6 says, “And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.” Believing that God is perfect and that His truth is without error is the foundation of our faith! If the Bible is not accurate when it speaks of geology or genealogy, there is no way we can place our hope in its theology? It is either a trustworthy document, or it is not. The Bible stands or falls as a whole and is a reflection of its author which come to think of it, all publications are!

If a major newspaper were routinely discovered to contain errors, it would be quickly discredited. It would make no difference to acknowledge that, “all the errors are confined to page three” or “we publish stories that are mostly fabricated.” For any publication to be reliable in any of its parts, it must be factual throughout.

Why would we waste our time reading anything that is a falsehood? The doctrine of Biblical perfection “Keeper of my soul” at billyhollandministries. com

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Who Is The Wisest Person You Know?

By Carey Kinsolving And Friends

“To be wise means to be very smart, and you know everything,” says Rachel, age 6. “And when someone wise says something, and it comes true, that means they are really wise and really smart.

The wisest person I know is my dad because he knows the weather, and he’s only a doctor.”

Hey, maybe I’ll ask my doctor for a weather forecast along with my next checkup.

“The wisest person I know is my mom because she has helped me and my big sister with a lot of stuff, and mostly all the things were right,” says Sarah, 9.

Most of the things were right? No mom is perfect.

Dad gets high marks for wisdom from Lela, 8: “I think my dad is wise because he said you better clean your room before you get in trouble.”

The book of Proverbs contains many sayings about wisdom. In the first chapter, there’s an appeal to “hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother; for they will be a graceful ornament on your head.” In other words, things will turn out well for children who listen to and obey their parents.

Ever wondered what it would be like for God to grant you any wish? This happened to young King Solomon. The Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”

Solomon asked for a wise and understanding heart to perform his duties as Israel’s king.

Because Solomon asked for this instead of wealth, God not only gave him wisdom but riches and honor, too. Proverbs includes Solomon’s wise sayings.

“Wisdom according to the Bible is not necessarily smart, but to fear the Lord,” says Carey Ann, 12.

You couldn’t be more right. In fact, Solomon says

the starting place for wisdom is to fear or respect the Lord (Proverbs 1:7). If you don’t respect God and his ways, you will live the life of a fool, say many of the proverbs.

“I think someone who asks for wisdom is wise,” says Mandy, 11. The Apostle James agrees: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God” (James 1:5).

Asking God for wisdom requires humility.

Proud people rely on their own resources. The very act of asking God for wisdom is an admission of our own smallness and an appeal to God’s infinite goodness and resources. “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6).

“The wisest person I know is Jesus,” says Melissa, 10. “He died on the cross for our sins.”

Melissa, you’ve probably read the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, in which he said Jesus is the “wisdom of God.” At first glance, dying like a criminal on a cross looked like absolute folly. But when Jesus rose from the dead, he destroyed the so-called “wisdom” of those who dismissed him as a false Messiah.

Paul picked up this theme when he wrote that the message of the cross appears as utter foolishness to those who reject it, but it’s the means of salvation for those who trust Jesus Christ as their savior.

Kyle, 12, agrees that Jesus is the wisest person he knows because “He does everything for His Father.”

So if we follow Jesus’ example and do everything for God, we will be wise.

Point to ponder: Jesus is the wisdom of God. Scripture to remember: “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (I Corinthians 3:19).

Question to consider: Have you asked God for his wisdom?

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COMMENTARY January 12, 2018 Black Women Need Real Black Votes Matter Change, Not Just Thanks oppressive treatment there. Jackson flew and

By Preston Love Jr.

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UNO Adjunct Professor Prestonlovejr.com Black Lives, Black Poverty and Black Votes Matter “My Two Years with Jesse Jackson Sr.” – Part IV (Jackson’s dilemma, to run or not to run, the Hotel Room meeting that changed history); In the Final installment of this series.

Jesse Jackson Sr. has made many pilgrimages, negotiating and freeing Americans in the sensitive world of formal and informal diplomacy. None were more dramatic than in his run for President in 1984. December of 1983 he traveled to Syria and successfully freed an American Soldier (Lt. Robert Goodman) who had been captured and held hostage by the Syrian government. Later in June of 1984, Jackson freed American and Cuban prisoners, capping a dramatic exercise in personal diplomacy with President Fidel Castro of Cuba. Mr. Jackson’s chartered Boeing 707 arrived at Dulles International Airport just before midnight with 16 American prisoners aboard and 7 Cuban political prisoners. Jackson took a large retinue on these trips, but in both cases asked me to stay in the US and keep the campaign operation running smoothly. I agreed, but begrudgingly. I sought the excitement that I knew would come during and after the trips. I often reflect, I should have insisted on traveling on those historical journeys. One of Jackson’s long-term associates and one of President Carter’s Labor Department appointees, Lamond Godwin, did not work for the campaign but quite honestly, was my constant rival for Jackson’s favor. Often, he and I were mistaken for each other.

One trip Jackson made, received little or no media coverage, yet, the trip was maybe his most significant historically speaking. Jesse Jackson made this little-known trip to Europe in the fall of 1983. The trip had several objectives, primarily it was an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Russians to release several Jewish Dissidents, who sought to escape from the

set up base in a hotel in Europe with a large entourage including some Jewish followers, and Lamond Godwin, my nemesis. I was charged to continue the preparation for the pending formal announcement of his run for the Presidency.

I forget the number of days the delegation was away, but soon there emerged a problem.

Jesse called and informed me that there wasn’t enough money for the delegation to check out of the hotel. At that time the pending campaign was unable to assist, nor would the expense be within the rules of the FEC. Jesse asked me to reach out too many of his wealthy celebrity friends and supporters and he would do the same. In a few days, the money was raised and Jackson and the delegation checked out of the hotel and flew into Washington DC, he was met by a small crowd of insiders and myself.

When the dust settled, Jesse, Godwin and I were in Jesse’s hotel room, snacking and talking about the trip. Jackson was very, very discouraged and expressed to Godwin and me that he had second thoughts about running. He went on to describe the horror of the experience of being not able to raise the money to get out of the hotel in Europe and to him it was a sign that he wouldn’t be able to raise enough money to run for president, if he couldn’t check out of a hotel. Godwin who was along on the trip agreed whole heartily. Jesse was ready right there in the hotel in DC to immediately halt his run for president. He and Godwin were feeding on each other and the momentum was growing, no run. I remained mostly quiet and in shock.

Finally, Jesse turned to me a said “Preston, what do you think?”

I made a 5 to 6-minute case for why he should run, but my final pitch was this sentence: “Jesse, you don’t have a choice, this race is bigger than you are, the people demand that you run.” There was silence in the room, for what seemed like an hour but more like 5 minutes. The next thing said was by Jackson; “Let’s order room service and get to work”!!! The rest is history.

(To review previous Black Votes Matter column articles, visit Omahastar.com. Or prestonlovejr.com. Preston love can be reached at prestonlovejr@gmail.com.)

By La’Tasha D. Mayes Executive Director New Voices for Reproductive Justice)

After Roy Moore’s defeat at the hands of Alabama voters – driven by Black voter turnout, especially the votes of Black women – we saw the celebration, credit-taking, and meaning-making that usually accompanies a progressive electoral victory. But one thing was different this time. This time, mainstream media and social media feeds flooded with messages acknowledging and thanking Black women for our role in the outcome.

Welcome to the reality Black women have known about – and named – for decades.

One of the hashtags that took off amid the Alabama election returns and the following days was #TrustBlackWomen. But what does it mean to trust Black women? What does it mean to advance a policy agenda that addresses the issues Black women face in this country?

Black women voters are not a monolith – we’re diverse, complex, and deeply engaged in national, state, and local policy debates. We don’t all agree.

But there is a set of values and policies that most Black women hold close to our hearts: we want a future where we can live with respect, health, and justice. Where we can decide whether and when to have children, and raise those children without fear of hunger, violence, or discrimination. Where we can realize our dreams and highest human potential.

For a start, I hope that this election can finally put to rest the ludicrous question of whether a progressive agenda must include support for abortion access. (Yes, absolutely it must.) Not only are Black women overwhelmingly supportive of abortion access, but nationwide, keeping abortion legal has the highest levels of support in decades.

Being able to make our own decisions about our bodies, pregnancy, and parenting is crucial to Black women’s dignity and self-determination.

Black women are already leading the way in reproductive health, rights, and justice policy.

In 2015, after decades of work by Black women advocates, Representative Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) led the introduction of the EACH Woman Act to repeal the Hyde Amendment’s Reign of Terror on poor women, and the bill today has 128 co-sponsors in the House, even in this incredibly hostile political moment. from high school, get good jobs, and participate in In another show of leadership, women of color their communities. in the Senate and their colleagues sent a bold and School choice isn’t just theoretical. Right now, defiant letter to Trump demanding that he strip more parents in Nebraska and across America are the Hyde Amendment and other bans on abortion actively choosing the education environments for their children than at any other time in history.

National School Choice Week provides parents with an opportunity to evaluate the education

By Debra L. Shaw options available for their children. If parents are interested in switching their child to a different Resolutions are promises school, or considering homeschooling, it helps to made at the beginning of the start looking into these options in the winter. ‘new year’. There is excitement Families in Nebraska can choose from traditional in the air for new opportunities, public schools, public magnet schools, private new relationships, and new schools, online academies, and homeschooling. In adventures. Many people terms of public school choice options, Nebraska make plans to change, to has one of the nation’s broadest “open enrollment” improve and/or to enhance their quality of life policies in the country; students are permitted to by exercising more, losing weight or reaching a attend virtually any public [school in] the state, major educational milestone. Ponder this idea: regardless of where they live.

Become a mentor in 2018! “You have to water Searching for a new school, or considering an the flowers you want to grow.” ~ Stephen Covey alternative education environment, doesn’t have Kick off the new year with a new attitude to be daunting. Parents can start by talking to their and a new direction to effect change that children and other parents, researching schools is rewarding for the giver and the receiver. online, and visiting schools in person. A good January is National Mentoring Month. There is place to start is the National School Choice Week a plethora of mentoring programs waiting for website: www.schoolchoiceweek.com, where we dedicated women and men to join their efforts. provide more information about specific school Mentors generally share learned experiences in choice options in the Cornhusker State as well addition to assisting students to discover their as listings of the tens of thousands of local and own potential.

Mentees gain an advocate who regional events happening this year. invests time with them, who they can share National School Choice Week is a time when their goals with and who listens carefully to the country comes together around the idea that their struggles along with guiding them through every child can succeed when they find the setbacks. Mentoring relationships are liferight school fit. This January, parents have more changing for both the mentor and mentee. “One options and opportunities than ever before to find of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to that right fit. For individual communities and for see ahead what others cannot see and to help our country, that is a good thing. them navigate a course to their destination.” ~ A nationally recognized advocate for children

Time to Focus on School Choice in Omaha and Across America

By Andrew R. Campanella

Later this month, schools, homeschool groups, organizations, and individuals in Nebraska and across America will work together to raise awareness about the importance of opportunity in K-12 education.

National School Choice Week begins Jan. 21 and celebrates all types of schools and education environments for children.

Nationwide, 32,240 different events and activities – such as open houses, school fairs, and information sessions – are being planned, with an estimated attendance of 6.7 million people. In fact, 212 of those events and activities will be held in Nebraska, and 47 are in Omaha.

National School Choice Week has been celebrated every year since 2011. And even with increased awareness, many families still have questions about school choice and how it can benefit them and their communities.

The first thing to know is that school choice isn’t partisan or political. It isn’t about a specific set of policy goals either. Rather, it’s about parents making personal decisions for their children.

School choice means empowering individual parents with the opportunity to search for, and find, the best education environments for their individual children – regardless of where they live or how much money they make.

Finding the right school is important, because every child has unique talents, challenges, and needs. School choice isn’t about finding fault with any of the schooling options available. Instead, it recognizes that while one student might thrive at a neighborhood school, another student might do better somewhere else.

Research shows that when parents actively choose schools and education environments for their children, students are more likely to succeed in school. They are also more likely to graduate

coverage from the budget. I doubt anyone is holding their breath for him to do the right thing, but that should never stop our leaders in Congress from taking a principled proactive stand.

But a reproductive health, rights, and justice platform that respects Black women must go beyond abortion. Black women in the U.S. are dying in childbirth at many times the rate of White women, a national health crisis that has gone largely ignored. Black women also suffer and die at disproportionate rates of reproductive cancers like breast and cervical cancer. In addition to contraception and abortion care, we need access to quality affordable health care and coverage for the full range of reproductive care including cancer prevention, screening, and treatment, and prenatal, maternity, and postpartum care. The Affordable Care Act – a law Black women championed – was a monumental step in the right direction. Today, we’re fighting to hold on even to that, and we know a much more accessible and comprehensive solution is needed.

Every day in this country, Black women face nearly impossible odds to raise our children with dignity, love, and abundance. But the cruel antifamily budget and tax policies of the conservative GOP have decimated funding for nutrition, housing, and other necessities while lining the pockets of their wealthy donors – even as they have failed to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program also known as CHIP. We must do everything in our power to reverse this dangerous redistribution of wealth and well-being from the poor to the super-rich.

Finally, we must address the ways in which police and prisons have been weaponized against Black Americans to rob us of our loved ones through mass incarceration and deadly police violence. Black lives matter is more than a hashtag, organization, or movement. It’s the urgent cry for justice from the mouths of mothers, sisters, wives, partners, and daughters.

Time and time again, Black women have been told to wait our turn. When male citizens – both White and Black – got the legal right to vote, we were told to wait our turn. When white women built a suffrage movement on our backs and out of our genius and then cut us out of it, we were told to wait our turn. And when Democrats and Republicans alike have taken our votes for granted while ignoring our needs, we have been told to wait our turn.

No longer. It’s time for this country to do more than thank Black women – it’s time to put our issues in the center of the political table and follow the leadership of Black women as we construct a new nation that affirms the human rights of us all.

It’s National Mentoring Month

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John C. Maxwell Mentoring at its core, guarantees young people that there is someone who cares about them, assures them they are not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges, and makes them feel like they matter. Research confirms that quality mentoring relationships have powerful positive effects on young people in a variety of personal, academic and professional situations.

Ultimately, mentoring connects a young person to personal growth and development and social and economic opportunity. Yet one in three young people will grow up without this critical asset. http://www.mentoring.org/ why-mentoring/mentoring-impact/ This site recognizes the main problem that exists with many mentoring programs. The programs do not have enough volunteers. This is a real fact but there is a fix!

Volunteers are needed for every mentoring program. Visit the following website https:// mmpomaha.org/ to select a mentoring program of choice and review the mentoring activities for the month of January. Remember to resolve to make a difference that will impact many lives.

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” ~ Oprah Winfrey Imagine the lives that you can change! Use mentoring to motivate, to encourage, and to inspire.

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A Federal Court has ordered Altria, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard, and Philip Morris USA to make this statement about low tar and light cigarettes being as harmful as regular cigarettes.

• Many smokers switch to low tar and light cigarettes rather than quitting because they think low tar and light cigarettes are less harmful.

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• “Low tar” and “light” cigarette smokers inhale essentially the same amount of tar and nicotine as they would from regular cigarettes.

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LIFE & STYLE/HEALTH & WELLNESS January 12, 2018 3 Tips to Help Women Prepare for Health and Spirituality Long-Term Health Care Feeling by Faith Women spend much of their lives caring for others. As mothers and wives, they never

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By Mark Darby, RN APRN, FNP-C Director of North Omaha Academy of Healthy Living We walk by faith not by sight Is that a familiar verse to you? I have heard it so much I know I know it but can’t find it in the Bible.

I always misinterpreted this verse. As a child, it made me think the Apostles had it easy. Just look and you see God but not us. We have to believe without seeing.

Harold Koenig of Duke University had a different interpretation. Dr Koenig has done work in the area of integrating spirituality and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT. CBT shows us that certain negative feelings lead to negative thoughts which reinforces the feelings leading to more bad thoughts. This creates a perpetuating cycle.

To the person who experiences this cycle, it seems to be completely normal as if there is no other reality possible. The person has no option to change. As an example: You walk into a room and everyone seems to suddenly stop talking. You immediately feel like you did something wrong. Then you start to have negative thoughts such as: they must not like me, I am not worthy.

These thoughts can be so powerful they may cause you to look for things you may or may not have done to justify the thoughts and feelings. This is how we fall into the pit of self-blame.

This whole process starts with FEELINGS. The feeling of self-blame seems so real that your mind

searches for something to justify your feeling. You don’t have the thought first, you have the feeling first, so it does little good to argue with yourself. Telling yourself, “I am not that bad,” just does not work. The negative feeling is still there.

Dr Koenig says those feelings should be addressed by spirituality. Hence the verse above. We walk by faith not by sight. Dr Koenig points that in the verse sight does not just mean vision but any physical sense or any emotional reaction.

If we only live by our senses and emotional reactions we are prone to misperceptions. “You only hear what you want to hear” is an example of how we don’t always trust our perceptions. Our feelings can also be misled. However, when the feelings are wrong they seem so right. They are so real we react to them.

The intellect is ill equipped to change feelings on a permanent basis. The intellect can distract but cannot dissuade negative feelings.

Faith counteracts this. Believing in yourself, for instance, counteracts automatic negative feelings.

Faith is the belief in things we do not see, or hear or feel are true. Faith opens the intellect and allows for a different way of thinking. Faith, often times, is the ability to act like you mean it even if you don’t feel that way.

Koenig changes the above scripture to “We walk by faith, not by feelings.” I think that is good advice.

I wish I could remember where it is in the bible.

seem to stop giving to their families.

So who will take care of mom if she needs long-term care (LTC)? Or will she plan ahead for her long-term care?

It’s important that she does. Women typically outlive men by an average of about five years. According to aarp.org, more than two-thirds of Americans 85 or older are women.

And about 79 percent of 65-year-old women will need long-term care during their lifetime, according to a study by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.

Women often become long-term caregivers for their husbands or other family members.

And as statistics show, they are also more likely to become widowed before needing longterm care themselves. Her husband’s needs may have further drained assets, leaving the widow with less financial wherewithal to apply to her own care.

“Women too often don’t adequately plan ahead for LTC needs,” says Lisa Odoski, a financial professional focusing on women’s well-being and Vice President of the Fried Group, the parent company of TFG Wealth Management (www.tfgwealth.com).

“At the same time, research shows among unpaid care-givers in the U.S., two-thirds are women. They sacrifice a lot – sometimes their own careers or reducing their regular work hours.

“Women today have a greater risk of needing LTC services and of becoming unpaid caregivers. It’s an important time for them to develop an LTC strategy that helps preserve their total financial future.”

Odoski gives three tips to help women prepare for their long-term care: • Educate yourself. Family financial planning used to be almost exclusively the men’s turf. Those days are long gone, and with many houses running on two incomes and women outliving men, women need to make planning for their distant future more of a priority.

But an AARP survey showed 60 percent of women hadn’t considered how they would pay for long-term care. “They should start by consulting an investment expert and financial planner,” Odoski says. “They need to get up to speed on senior care costs, insurance and savings plans.”

• Know your retirement benefits and your spouse’s. Women should take advantage of their employer’s retirement plan and not delay in saving for their future, including the last years they may spend alone. It’s especially important, in the event of divorce or their spouse’s death, to know their spousal rights in regard to their spouse’s pension, Social Security or veteran’s benefits. “They don’t want to be in a position where most of their spouse’s benefits are going toward their own care,” Odoski says.

• Think long-term with your budget. Women should have specific goals and a plan to save toward them. The statistics say the goals should include a portion devoted to longnow-considered-a-syndemic.html term care insurance, which covers a wide spectrum of products and services. “They should lay out all monthly and annual spending needs and crunch the numbers to determine what they’ll need in later years in order to maintain their familiar lifestyle,” Odoski says. “They ADDICTION SCREENINGS need to look at all LTC options. Medicare and private insurance usually aren’t enough to Narconon can help you take steps to overcome cover long-term care anymore.”

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Ask Alma: Should I Let My Ex See Our Daughter?

By Alma Gill NNPA Newswire Columnist Dear Alma: I had a baby in my twenties when I was dealing with this guy, who was in the military, stationed close to where I live. I thought that we would get married and live happily ever after. Obviously, that didn’t happen.

He relocated and eventually we stopped talking.

He did however send money to take care of our daughter. I get a check in the mail from him every month and I’m forever grateful for it.

I was heartbroken when he moved away and I don’t think I ever really healed. I was in relationships here and there and eventually got married.

When that marriage ended, I just shut down. I let myself go and made some not so good decisions.

I put on weight, because I’ve been depressed and I just try not to bring attention to myself. I’m a

great cook and all my daughter’s friends and my family usually come over when they want a good home-cooked meal. Recently, a knock came on the door and it was my daughter’s father. He asked if she lives here and then he asked if her mother is home; he didn’t even recognize me. I just said that she wasn’t home and that I’d give her the message. He said, “Okay” and I shut the door. I was so hurt afterward, I just cried and cried. I don’t know how to feel. I haven’t told my daughter yet, because I don’t know if I want to see him again. What’s your advice Alma?

Should I give my daughter her father’s contact information or should I just pretend like he never stopped by?

Signed, Reunited, but It Doesn’t Feel So Good Dear Reunited, The question you asked has nothing to do with the answer you need, but because of the circumstances, I’ll offer you a two-fer.

Sterling K. Brown Makes History At Golden Globes Sterling K. Brown made Golden Globes history on Sunday night when he took home the award for Best Actor in a Drama TV Series. Brown, who won for his role as Randall Pearson on NBC’s “This Is Us,” is the first black man to win the award in the ceremony’s 75-year history. This is Brown’s second nomination. In 2017, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his role as prosecutor Christopher Darden in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” He won an Emmy for that role.

During an emotional acceptance speech, Brown thanked “This is Us” creator Dan Fogelman for crafting Sterling K. Brown an inclusive role specifically for a black man. “Throughout the majority of my career, I’ve benefited from colorblind casting,” Brown said. “But Dan Fogleman, you wrote a role for a black man that can only be played by a black man, and so what I appreciate so much about this thing is that I’m being seen for who I am and I’m being appreciated for who I am. That makes it that much more difficult to dismiss me or dismiss anyone who looks like me.”

Tavis Smiley has a New Show A month after PBS dropped Tavis Smiley’s talk show for reported inappropriate relationships with subordinates, Smiley announced a deal Monday to go back to work with a new series about inspirational stories.

The new series, “The Upside with Tavis Smiley,” will be streamed online and shown on The Word Network, a religious-oriented cable and satellite channel directed at black viewers. He also will host town halls in five cities wherein he will talk about relationships in the workplace.

Among the men caught up in sexual misconduct cases the past few months, Smiley has been most aggressive in fighting back and the first to publicly announce plans to resume his career. His new show is expected to start in the spring.

Smiley compared the experience to when he was fired by BET in 2001 for offering an interview that he had conducted with a newsmaker to ABC News before BET. He wrote books about rebounding from setbacks, and launched the late-night talk show with PBS that aired for 14 years.

“I would not wish this experience on my worst enemy,” Smiley said. “Having said that, the last time this happened, great things came out of it.”

Although conceding that what was once considered acceptable in the workplace may no longer be, Smiley has been defiant, suggesting that romances between Tavis Smiley professional colleagues is hardly unusual. However, PBS investigators reportedly found women who felt their advancement at work was tied to the sexual relationships, an assertion Smiley has denied.

He’ll be a test case for whether fans will be willing to overlook behavior that an employer considered out of bounds.

By fashioning a new program focusing on inspirational stories instead of more general interest news and entertainment, Smiley will sidestep the issue of whether his downfall would make celebrities reluctant to be interviewed by him.

His “town hall” appearances in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco will have him moderating discussions about acceptable workplace protocols.

“Everyone is saying, ‘We need to talk about this,’ but nobody is doing that,” he said.

“Nobody is creating a space for it. Now here I am doing it.”

He added that as “a black man in America,” he knows that better offers may never come.

First, let me get this straight. Your daughter’s father consistently provides for her and although he didn’t stay connected, his coins come regularly to help you take care of her. He recently stopped by to reconnect, but didn’t recognize you and you think that’s enough reason to keep him away from her? Okay, I’ve gotta stop rightchia: I’m sorry Sweet Pea, I don’t mean to kick you when you’re down, but this ain’t about you. It’s about your daughter and her father reconnecting – period. Run to your pocketbook, pour out your belongings and give the contact information to you daughter, plain and simple.

Now, scooch over and let me sit, here’s part two: Ain’t no doubt about it, it can seem like forever to spoon your way out of a dark, deep ditch, but you can do it. Once you get started, your spoon becomes a spatula, the spatula becomes a ladle and then the ladle becomes a shovel – you feel me?

What you thought you couldn’t do, suddenly becomes natural to you, but first you’ve got to change your mind, change your thinking.

It’s been a long time since your old flame has laid eyes on you, that doesn’t mean you didn’t look the same. It just means he didn’t initially recognize you. Let that go, use it as the fuel you need to get back to your best. If you can’t find the strength in yourself, do it for your daughter.

Whenever you get tired, don’t let “Ms. Easy” rule your decisions. Ms. Easy will lead you back to eating fried chicken, mac & cheese and drinking milkshakes, but don’t do it. No excuses.

Today is the day you are #sickntired of being #sickntired. Start walking. You own your mind and body; nobody should love you more than you love yourself. Stop allowing the pains of your past to deter you from making yourself a priority. Go find the happy you, the fabulous you, the confident you and reintroduce yourself.

When you start healing your mind, your body will follow. And once that happens, a heap of friends and family members won’t recognize you, but that’s okay, because it’ll be for all the right reasons.

Dwight Brown Reviews the Best Films of 2017

By Dwight Brown NNPA Newswire Film Critic As we look back on the highest caliber films of 2017, the array is diverse, the talent is strong and the entertainment value is solid.

These are the films that will make you laugh, cry, think, hug someone or wish you had super powers.

The following films opened in 2017, are still at a theater near you or will be on a streaming service shortly. Enjoy.

Battle of the Sexes (***1/2) In the 1970s, Grand Slam tennis champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and overthe-hill tennis pro Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) duke it out in the pivotal tennis match of the century. Their battle is still socially relevant today. Stone brings King’s raw courage to life and the dawning of her new sexual identity is profound.

Carell gives Riggs the right dose of bluster. Well directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valarie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine).

Coco (****) This American-made animated film shows such great respect for Mexican culture. It takes you to unimaginable places where humans and spooky creatures collide all synched around the holiday Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos). Rich palette of colors. Lively musical score.

Firmly and affectionately voiced by Anthony Gonzalez, Benjamin Bratt, Gael García Bernal and Renée Victor.

Co-directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina. A joy to watch.

Crown Heights (***1/2) Everyday heroes are on view in this simple yet courageous story about two friends whose bond is stronger than a crooked Brooklyn District Attorney. In the wake of misguided films like “Detroit,” “Crown Heights” is a godsend. Director/writer Matt Ruskin’s understated style makes the film seem real. Lakeith Stanfield shines in the lead as a wrongfully convicted suspect. Nnamdi Asomugha plays the friend who never gives up on him. Pure inspiration.

Darkest Hour (****) Sure, Gary Oldman chews up the scenery as the stalwart Winston Churchill in this World War II film about Germany’s impending invasion of Britain.

He deserves an Oscar for his interpretation and so does his makeup man who turns the slim actor into the stout world leader. Brilliant direction by Joe Wright. Smart script

by Anthony McCarten. Superb cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel.

Get Out (***) It’s quite surprising and fresh that in his first outing as a filmmaker, Comedy Central star Jordan Peele gets so much right about the art of making a drama/horror movie. Aptly he captures that insular foreign feeling black people have when they are in a room full of awkward-acting whites. Then he cranks the horror up a notch to a high crazy/ weird decibel. Daniel Kaluuya is the face of the common man. Milton “Lil Rel” Howery is his hysterical wingman.

Best First Film of the year, hands down.

Girls Trip (****) This hilarious and relentlessly bawdy take on a girls’ weekend reunion in New Orleans is a cross between Bridesmaids and The Hangover, only more outrageous. Praise to screenwriters Kenya Barris (TV’s

Tiffany Haddish

Black-ish) and Tracy Oliver and director Malcolm Lee. Rain accolades on Tiffany Haddish for her impressive comedy chops and equal doses of love to Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah for giving us a great laugh. Best Comedy of the Year.

In the Fade (****) A mother (Diane Kruger) loses her child and husband in a bombing in Germany and she seeks justice and revenge. The sociopolitical aspects of the racist attack against her Kurdish-born husband are so topical it’s as if the movie was ripped from a newspaper headline. Director Fatih Akin also wrote the screen adaptation of a novel by Hark Bohm. Riveting from beginning to end.

Lady Bird (****) A precocious high-school student, Christine (Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn), goes by the name Lady Bird and is in a constant verbal battle with her pessimistic mother (Laurie Metcalf, TV’s Roseanne). Teen angst colors her relationships with her first boyfriend (Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea) and second lover (Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name) Hilarious. Heartwarming.

Written and directed by actress Greta Gerwig (Jackie) and based on her life.

Stars Wars: The Last Jedi (****) Wow. This is the event movie of the year. So much action. So much haunting drama and raw emotion. And it doesn’t just build to one climax. It crescendos up to climax, after climax, after climax... The mix of the old generation, with Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), with the new warriors, like Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega), is seamless. The surprising plotlines by writer/director Rian Johnson and the astonishing art direction, production design, costumes and cinematography make this saga a fun experience with lots of eye candy.

Wonder Woman (****) Best comic book hero turned action film movie of the year. Director Patty Jenkins, with Gal Gadot as her muse elevates the legendary Amazon warrior way above the current tepid Batman (Ben Affleck) and Superman (Henry Cavill) to an upper stratosphere.

Perfect blend of beauty and strength. Great special effects.

Tight script by Allan Heinberg. Robin Wright and Chris Pine co-star.

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King’s Fight for Economic Justice Largely Ignored by Mainstream Media The War for Net Neutrality –

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will always be remembered as a social activist and Baptist minister whose role was integral in the Civil Rights Movement. Publicly and privately, King fought for equality, justice and human rights for African Americans and others who suffered from racism, segregation and other injustices.

His sermons, including the “Drum Major Instinct,” and his speeches like, “I Have a Dream,” are as important as they are legendary. But, those closest to King recalled some of his more unheralded feats.

They also recalled the importance of the Black Press during the movement.

“I would say King’s abiding commitment to focus on poverty and to deal with the wealth and equity gaps, and particularly the conditions of the poor, has been less heralded than his other accomplishments,” said Dr. Clarence Jones, a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco and a scholar and writer-in-residence at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Institute.

Jones met King in 1960 when he was 29 and King was 31.

Jones served on King’s legal team and helped draft many of his most important speeches, including the 1963 “I Have a Dream” masterpiece. But, it was a speech

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that King delivered just five days before his April 4, 1968 assassination that Jones remembers most.

“I’ve said so often that the sermon he gave at the National Cathedral in Washington was most important,” Jones said. “He captioned the speech, ‘Sleeping Through a Revolution,’ and that’s exactly what he’d say today, if he were here.”

Many of King’s accomplishments were aided by his relationship with newspapers like the Atlanta Daily World, the Pittsburgh Courier and other Black-owned newspapers, Jones said. “The two essential pillars of support of the Civil Rights Movement were the Black Church and the Black Press,” he said. “The Black Press was critically important, and King had a healthy appreciation for the Black Press.”

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., another close confidant of King, agreed. “The kinship King had with [former EBONY and Jet owner] John Johnson, [National Newspaper Publishers Association founder] John Sengstacke and others was apparent, and he

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The FCC voted along party lines to end the Obama administration’s rules on net neutrality.

This war for a free and open Internet has been going on for some time. This is just the latest battle. This decision is by no means the end of it. But what is happening and what does it mean for Black Internet users?

What is net neutrality?

Net neutrality is the idea that all data carried over the Internet is treated the same. That FCC Chairman means that whether you’re streaming Netflix, Ajit Pai shopping online, playing games or just reading realized their value and they recognized his the news, all the data is the same. Same speed and same price. For value,” Jackson said. users of the Internet that meant that you could access any website Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the president and use as much data as you wanted. Before the change Internet and CEO of the NNPA, said he will always service providers or ISPs like Comcast or Verizon could not cherish the days that he worked with King deliberately speed up or slow down Internet traffic from specific and the Southern Christian Leadership websites or apps. But they did. The practice was known as throttling.

Conference. “I witnessed, first-hand, the The net neutrality rules, put in place by the Obama administration in fearless courage of Dr. King as he spoke out 2015, were intended to keep the Internet open and fair. If you really against global racial injustice and war when want to understand how this works imagine sitting in traffic while it was not popular to do so,” Chavis said. those willing to pay whiz by you in the express lane. That is the basic Chavis continued: “The mainstream press idea behind the new rules of the Internet. routinely mischaracterized Dr. King as a How does that affect Black people? principle-less agitator. But, it was only the People using the Internet, schools, small businesses and others are Black-owned newspapers during the 1960s now subject to a potential new way of using the Internet and paying that would, without apology, tell the truth for it. You could be charged for high-speed streaming like Netflix. that Dr. King was both a theological and You could also be charged more for using data from some websites intellectual genius whose worldwide vision, or apps over others. The rules used to say that ISPs could not favor activism and principles demanded a public one website over another for its content, the aptly named fast lane/ Kings fight continued on page 10 slow lane Internet. Those rules just went out the window. Expect more throttling and slower web speeds and loading. Businesses with numerous computers and heavy data consumption could end up paying more. Start-up businesses, especially minority owned, could be stifled by high data costs. According to MIT the repeal of net neutrality could be harmful to innovation. The exact opposite of what FCC chairman Ajit Pai claims.

Where this hurts black people, other minorities and the poor, is that just getting Internet could be costly. Already we are dealing with a lack of high speed Internet in poor and minority schools. As matter of fact the United States is 12 Rolls or already behind in both wireless and fixed wire Internet speeds.

Poor and minority children are already dealing with poor public education. That situation could 8 Rolls be further eroded by a lack of adequate access to the Internet.

Classroom instruction will suffer as they fall further behind more affluent school districts. The digital divide is going to grow along with an under-educated under-class that is the source of poverty.

Black people are avid users of mobile technology. The use of mobile devices could become more expensive. Shopping online, banking and other online activities could be slowed down or throttled. Another area of concern for black people is social and political activism. A free and open Internet meant that no matter who you are you could get your message to the masses.

These new rules could make it expensive for, or even censor, groups like #Black Lives Matter.

Many believe that the Internet is key to free speech and the right of the public to know.

Who is benefitting from this rule change?

Most people would agree that the telecom companies are benefitting the most from this rule change. FCC Chairman Pai, an Obama appointment and promoted to chairman by Trump, has claimed that the new rules will not affect a free and open and Internet. Pai has been a critic of the net neutrality rules and believes that the rules of the Obama administration allowed the government to “micromanage the Internet.”

The telecom industry approves of Pai’s plan. Pai argued that earlier regulation was a drag on broadband investment and innovation. In a blog post, Comcast downplayed concerns, saying customers “will continue to enjoy all of the benefits of an open Internet today, tomorrow, and in the future. Period.” Yet at the same time it appears that Comcast is already planning to charge you for more Internet speed.

Telecommunications companies like AT&T, Charter Communications and Comcast have run full page ads in the Washington Post claiming to preserve an “open Internet.”

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In The Village!

Things to do, people to see, places to go.

Jan. 14 – Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (IMA) hosts the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Service at Salem Baptist Church, 3131 Lake St., at 6 p.m. The community is invited to attend this free service.

Jan. 15 – Thompson Learning Community hosts the MLK Day of Service Pancake Breakfast from 7:30-11:30 a.m., at 812 S. 24th St. RSVP on Facebook. Look for MLK Pancake Feed 2018.

Jan. 15 – The MLK holiday observance continues when the IMA hosts the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. luncheon at the Doubletree by Hilton Omaha Downtown, 1616 Dodge St. Doors open at 10:45 a.m. The featured speaker is Civil Rights attorney Fred Gray. Tickets can be purchased online at www. eventbrite.com or by phoning 402-341-4297.

Jan. 15 – Civil Rights icon Fred Gray will be the 2018 Lane Lecturer for a talk titled “Civil Rights Then and Now: A Conversation with Fred Gray.” The lecture will take place from 4-5 p.m., in the Hixson-Lied Auditorium at the Harper Center on Creighton’s campus.

This event is free and open to the public and has been approved for one hour of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit in both Nebraska and Iowa. To register online, visit https://www. eventbrite.com/e/2018-lane-lecture.

Jan. 15 – First Unitarian Church hosts King – Free Progressive Omaha film screening and discussion from 7-9 p.m. Tom Brokaw takes an in-depth look at the remarkable life and legacy of Civil Rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The public is invited to this free event.

Jan. 16 – Open Coffee Omaha hosts Jasmine Harris from 8-10 a.m. at No More Empty Cups, 1502 S. 10th St. Join this gathering of change makers and meet with some of Omaha’s most impacting and influential people. Jasmine Harris is a public health professional who is passionate about criminal and juvenile justice reform, social justice issues and women’s right. For tickets visit https://www.eventbrite.com.

Jan. 18 – The Word Honors Dr. King, 7:3010:30 p.m. at SoCo Café, 2401 Lake St. This 21 and over event is hosted by Withlove, Felicia.

There is a minimal cost.

Jan. 20 – Dine, Digest, Discuss American Promise documentary at Big Mama’s Kitchen, 3223 N.45th St., from 3-5 p.m. American Promise is an intimate and provocative account,

recorded over 13 years, of the experiences of two middle-class African-American boys who entered a very prestigious – and historically white – private school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. A complimentary light meal will be served. Registration is not required.

Jan. 20 – 2018 Omaha Women’s March will be held in downtown Omaha. The route will be released closer to the event date. Save the date and plan to join this special event celebrating equality and marching on the polls.

Jan. 23 – Deputy Voter Registrar training at 6 p.m. at Urban Abbey, 1026 Jackson St. To register, phone the League of Women Voters at 402-344-3701.

Jan. 24 – Urban League of Nebraska Young Professionals host Lunch with Leaders from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Urban League Family Resource Center, 3040 Lake. The featured speakers are Thomas Warren and Brenda Council. There is a minimal charge for the catered lunch. Lunch reservations must be made

by Jan. 22. For more info, phone 402-453-9730.

Jan. 27 – 5th annual Omaha Teen Summit will be held from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, 6401 Dodge St. This is an opportunity for students in grades 8 and above to learn, network and solve problems plaguing them. To register, visit: omahateensummit.eventbrite.com Jan. 31 – UNMC Center for Reducing Health Disparities will host an unconventional presentation to share a qualitative academic study on community violence titled, Listen to my Story: Perspectives of African-American Mothers and Male Offenders on Violence in Omaha, Nebraska. A group of local poets will use their creative spirit and energy to give life to the narratives of mothers and male offenders who have experienced violence in Omaha. This event will be held at KANEKO, 1111 Jones St., from 6-8 p.m. Tickets are available at https:// www.eventbrite.com.

Feb. 3 – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. statewide Founders Day Celebration will be hosted by the Omaha Alumnae Chapter. Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn E. Boyd, the 22nd National President, will be the featured speaker at their 11 a.m. public luncheon to be held at Hilton Omaha, 1001 Cass St. To purchase tickets, phone Marla C. Bachus at 402-681-1092.

stance against the unjust Vietnam War, and against the duel racist Apartheid in America and South Africa.”

Chavis recalled one of King’s most famous quotes: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Dr. Wornie Reed, the director of the Race and Social Policy Center at Virginia Tech, who marched alongside King in the 1960s, said too few people knew about King’s major project when he was assassinated, “The Poor People’s Campaign.”

“The Memphis garbage workers strike was a side issue, the kind he was frequently involved in. He was putting in long days and nights across the country, calling on all of us who cared to come to Washington to help him to put maximum pressure on the federal government to come forth with concrete plans to reduce poverty in this rich country,” Reed said. “King was promoting a level of pressure that the federal government had never faced before. And many of us were organizing groups to do just that.”

Reed continued: “When King vowed to stop commerce in Washington, to stop planes, buses, and trains, in other words, to close Washington down, he gained the support of all the radical Black groups who had abandoned King and the SCLC. These groups had tired of the ‘soft’ approach of the Civil Rights Movement. Many readily agreed to go to D.C. and help him do just that.”

Sadly, the childhood poverty rate is higher now than it was in 1968 when King was assassinated— then, it was between 15 and 16 percent, Reed said. Now, the national child poverty rate was 18 percent in 2016, according to the Children’s Defense Fund. The poverty rate for Black children

under 18 years old is 30.9 percent.

Also, Reed said, the Black Press was more important to King and the Civil Rights Movement early on during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the early days of the sit-in movement. The Black Press provided vital coverage of the activities and the leading personalities in the movement, he said.

“Often the major press was concerned with the disruptions of the movement while the Black Press tended to provide more information about what the activities meant on the ground in Black communities,” Reed said.

National Urban League President Marc Morial said King’s profoundly important, but less heralded work on economic justice, particularly toward the end of his life, left a legacy that the Urban League champions today.

“In his final speeches and his plans to launch a ‘Poor People’s Campaign,’ Dr. King laid out his extraordinary vision for a country that provides equal access to economic opportunity and prosperity to all, no matter their color or creed – a dream that organizations like the National Urban League are still fighting for,” Morial said.

Since its inception, the Black Press has played an integral role in communicating the raw and uncompromising struggle of King and African Americans across the country, Morial added.

“The Black Press remained on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement, offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of African Americans far before mainstream media paid attention,” said Morial. “In many ways, the Black journalists were a critical pillar of the movement and of communicating Dr. King’s vision for a more equal America to the world.”

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speeds and “no unfair discrimination.” They never said you wouldn’t have to pay for it.

Another winner of the repeal are the big content providers. Netflix, Google and other large content providers also have the money and the leverage of millions of subscribers to negotiate deals with ISPs. This would allow them access to the Internet fast lanes and potentially get a competitive advantage. Any deal that Netflix, Google or YouTube cuts with the ISPs could mean a price increase for the consumer. You lose.

Supporters of net neutrality believe that consumers could be charged extra to stream certain content if they don’t want to be hampered by network congestion or throttling. Others are warning that consumer choices of Internet service providers could shrink and prices of

broadband service could increase due to lack of competition.

What is actually happening is that the FCC, under the Trump administration, has declared that information is free. Access to it is not. The Internet, until now, was regulated as a utility.

This brings that to an end. Now the Internet belongs to private industry and they are willing to make you pay for access because that is what they do.

They couldn’t care less about your business needs, your child’s education or your need to know … period. They have the capability to keep the ignorant ignorant, the poor poor and the competition from competing. They can slow down information or cut it off completely if you don’t pay. Corporations have scored a victory but the war is far from over.

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The Big Kids Social In celebration of National Mentoring Month in 2018, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands and Kids Can Community Center are encouraging young professionals across the Omaha/Council Bluffs metro area to become mentors. The organizations invite the public to their signature event, The Big Kids Social, Jan. 25 from 6-8 p.m. at the Old Mattress Factory Omaha, 501 N. 13th St. Attendees will get the chance to network and meet other YPs, but this will not be any ordinary networking event. In a fun and relaxed atmosphere, enjoy a complimentary drink and Street Taco Bar, win prizes from live DJ, XaveOnTheBeat. Hear from current mentors and learn more about getting involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Midlands and Kids Can Community Center. The event is FREE and open to all Young Professionals.

It’s not too late to give back for your New Year’s resolution. Help shape the life of a young person while also shaping the future of Omaha for the better! Mark your calendars and RSVP today for our Big Kids Social Hour. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-big-kids-social-tickets-41145266600.

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Civil Rights Movement co-founder Dr. Ralph Abernathy and his wife Juanita (not pictured) follow with Dr. and Mrs. King as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. The children are (left-right): Donzaleigh Abernathy in striped sweater, Ralph David Abernathy III, and Juandalynn R. Abernathy in glasses. Name of the White Minister is unknown. (Abernathy Family Photos/Wikipedia Commons)

King’s Lasting Impact on Equity in Education

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s influence on the Civil Rights Movement is indisputable, but his fight for equity in education remains a mystery to some.

That fight began with his own education.

“He clearly had an advanced, refined educational foundation from Booker T. Washington High School, Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University,” said Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. “His education in his speeches and sermons and writings was apparent and he wanted us all to have that type of education.”

King completed high school at 15, college at 19, seminary school at 22 and earned a doctorate at 26.

“Dr. King laid down the case for affordable education for all Americans, including Polish children – from the ghetto and the barrios, to the Appalachian Mountains and the reservations – he was a proponent for education for all and he believed that strong minds break strong chains and once you learn your lesson well, the oppressor could not unlearn you.”

Rev. Al Sharpton, the founder and president of the National Action Network (NAN), said that NAN works with Education for a Better America to partner with school districts, universities, community colleges, churches, and community organizations around the country to conduct educational programming for students and parents.

“The mission of the organization has been to build bridges between policymakers and the classrooms by supporting innovations in education and creating a dialogue between policymakers, community leaders, educators, parents, and students,” Sharpton said. “We’re promoting student health, financial literacy, and college readiness in our communities, just like Dr. King did.”

King was a figure to look up to in both civil rights and academia, Sharpton told the NNPA Newswire.

“Then, when you look at his values, he always saw education, especially in the Black community, as a tool to uplift and inspire to action,” Sharpton said. “It’s definitely no coincidence that a number of prominent civil rights groups that emerged during Dr. King’s time, were based on college campuses.”

“Just as importantly, he always made a point to refer education back to character – that we shouldn’t sacrifice efficiency and speed for morals,” Sharpton said. “A great student not only

has the reason and education, but a moral compass to do what’s right with his or her gifts. It’s not just important to be smart, you have to know what’s right and what’s wrong.”

Dr. Wornie Reed, the director of Race and Social Policy Research Center at Virginia Tech who marched with King, said when he thinks of King and education, he immediately considers the late civil rights leader’s advocating that “we should be the best that we could be.”

“King certainly prepared himself educationally … early on he saw that education played a crucial role in society, but perceived it as often being misused,” Reed said. “In a famous essay that he wrote for the student newspaper at Morehouse in 1947, he argued against a strictly utilitarian approach to education, one that advanced the individual and not society.”

Maryland Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, who remembers running home from church on Sundays to listen to King’s speeches on radio, said King had a tremendous impact on education in the Black community.

“Dr. King worked tirelessly to ensure that African Americans would gain the rights they had long been denied, including the right to a quality education,” said Cummings. “His fight for equality in educational opportunities helped to tear down walls of segregation in our nation’s schools.”

Cummings continued: “He instilled hope in us that we can achieve our dreams no matter the color of our skin. He instilled in us the notion that everyone can be great, because everyone can serve and there are so many great advocates, who embody this lesson.”

In support of education equality, civil rights leaders across the country are still working to ensure all students, regardless of color, receive access to experienced teachers, equitable classroom resources and quality education, Cummings noted further.

During his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway, King said: “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.”

The need for high quality education in the Black community is universal and the route to get there may be different, but education does matter, Jackson said.

“Dr. King told me he read a fiction and a nonfiction book once a week. He was an avid reader and, in the spirit of Dr. King, today we fight for equal, high-quality education,” said Jackson. “We fight for skilled trade training, affordable college education and beyond.”

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Regular library users will tell you that waiting for a highly anticipated read that you placed on hold can be tough. Some readers skipped the wait by utilizing Omaha Public Library’s Bestseller Express, and others took advantage of the materials in their various available formats. Omaha Public Library (OPL) has prepared a list of top circulating titles from 2017.

Additionally, OPL staff has selected over 100 favorite titles from 2017 and are presenting them, along with brief reviews, at topshelf.omahalibrary.org. Find these selections and more at omahalibrary.org.

Top adult fiction titles in print books: Top RBdigital online magazines: 1. “Camino Island” by John Grisham 1. US Weekly 2. “The Fix” by David Baldacci 2. OK! Magazine 3. “16th Seduction” by James Patterson 3. The New Yorker 4. “Into the Water” by Paula Hawkins 4. The Economist 5. “The Whistler” by John Grisham 5. HGTV Magazine 6. “Golden Prey” by John Sandford 6. Better Homes and Gardens 7. “Turbo Twenty-Three” by Janet Evanovich 7. Prevention 8. “Night School” by Lee Child 8. Food Network Magazine 9. “Never Never” by James Patterson 9. Good Housekeeping 10. “Murder Games” by James Patterson 10. Family Handyman Top adult nonfiction titles in print books: 1. “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance 2. “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann 3. “The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis – and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance” by Ben Sasse 4. “The Magnolia Story” by Chip and Joanna Gaines 5. “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi 6. “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” by Trevor Noah 7. “The Zookeeper’s Wife” by Diane Ackerman 8. “What Happened” by Hillary Rodham Clinton 9. “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race” by Margot Lee Shetterly 10. “Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan” by Bill O’Reilly Top eBooks – fiction & nonfiction: 1. “Two by Two” by Nicholas Sparks 2. “The Whistler” by John Grisham 3. “The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins 4. “See Me” by Nicholas Sparks 5. “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman 6. “Night School” by Lee Child 7. “The Woman in Cabin 10” by Ruth Ware 8. “Rogue Lawyer” by John Grisham 9. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood 10. “Me Before You” by Jojo Moyes Top print magazines: 1. People 2. US Weekly 3. Real Simple 4. Prevention 5. Time 6. O: The Oprah Magazine 7. The New Yorker 8. American Girl 9. Southern Living 10. House Beautiful

Top adult DVDs: 1. Arrival 2. The Accountant 3. Sully 4. Hidden Figures 5. Hacksaw Ridge 6. Fences 7. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 8. La La Land 9. The Girl on the Train 10. Jason Bourne Top young children’s titles in print books: 1. “Pete the Cat and the New Guy” by Kimberly and James Dean 2. “Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses” by Kimberly and James Dean 3. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two” by J.K. Rowling 4. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down” by Jeff Kinney 5. “Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pete” by James Dean 6. “My New Friend Is So Fun!” by Mo Willems 7. “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss 8. “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle 9. “There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!” by Dr. Seuss 10. “Pete the Cat: Too Cool for School” by Kimberly and James Dean Top youth/teen print titles: 1. “Eleanor & Park” by Rainbow Rowell 2. “Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor” by Rick Riordan 3. “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher 4. “The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy”

by Rick Riordan 5. “Red Queen” by Victoria Aveyard 6. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling 7. “Everything, Everything” by Nicola Yoon 8. “The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle”

by Rick Riordan 9. “King’s Cage” by Victoria Aveyard 10. “Carve the Mark” by Veronica Roth Information for additional categories is available at omahalibrary.org.

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After last year’s 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts selling cookies, troops across Nebraska will kick off this season Feb. 2 with the return of Girl Scout S’mores, the most popular new flavor in the history of the Girl Scout Cookie Program.

Cookie fans help support the next generation of entrepreneurs and invest in their communities.

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homes as you are hardly can continue to repair and buy I of the people that no good money and invest it now doing, save your “Dedicated to the service believe that the bonds that you and that evil shall not go wisely. Buy more Savings cause shall lack a champion Omaha Star has if and when things may be comfortable unopposed.” been in existence for change. seventy-two years a former pastor of the newspaper, Mildred Reverend Joseph Forbes, In an introduction to and I have been the said, “Mildred was St. John A. M. E. Church Gilbert wrote: publisher for the It is with profound pleashe made her paper To the Citizens of Omaha: a friend of the pastors ... last twenty years. It a platform. She Publishing Co., and [sic] available anytime we needed sure that the Omaha Star seems like yesterday well trained journalistic ministry. She believed that organization of energetic, by saw her work as a that I started after my One entire page day a paper of the people, God had given her a calling. minds, give to you this aunt Mildred Brown We here and now wish devoted to the work of the people and for the people. its was per edition was expired. Some of the Omaha Star dedicates community, submitted by to have you know that in the churches in the you have been supserving the general public the pastors. existence to the task of porters almost from It shall be our policy the struggle for Among her concerns was every way humanly possible.

Others the start. of duty in the behalf of Brown’s primary path Mildred unerring an in racial equality. to move became supporters it already had. She worked bringing to you the local Star was in selling Many others became supportfoothold in Omaha than early role in the Omaha Black America in Omaha, for equalas the years went by. sincere it, as well as the national many organizations to work only an excellent salesperyou I want to give my news of the city as we find of tirelessly with of ads. She was not the National ers recently. To all of backing for the welfare could use the ads as a tool She was a member of son; she found that she highlights, promoting and to ity and peace.

Colored People thanks. to sell newspaper ads Black America in general. for the Advancement of is fascinating. The Omaha her activism. She refused the citizens of Omaha and She Association Association, the Working at a newspaper sea of journalistic adventhe Black Publishers did not employ black workers. that because this is our paper.

(NAACP), As we launch out into the of companies Star is especially fascinating her readers to procan the support of the general League, the Urban League Anyone who is interested also used editorials to encourage and she challenged National Business ture, we sincerely request Black museum.

This paper is about us. in when we as a group must military and the Great Plains and issues. Where else test the segregation of the public. The time is at hand plant Nebraska, active, she was submit their story, events Omaha Star a firm foundathat the Martin Bomber time during which it was Since the recent recession, them to apply for jobs begin to build. Give the She During the De Porres Club, and also this State can this happen? and reading support and rollerBase in Bellevue, Nebraska. the spokeswoman for the tion by way of subscribing an emotional, financial after enter- at Offutt Air Force the paper has also been who is widely remem- allowed it to meet in the Omaha Star building we in turn will build an hired Charles Washington, we will assure you that are determined to persevere. and a mouthpiece and a to support their own facility. coaster at times but we civil rights, as a reporter the club ran out of funds to contact us concerning bered for his work for prise worthy of consideration, working in the commuI encourage the public who was the executive She spent countless hours or even if you want to columnist. Whitney Young, force for the people of Omaha. commucomplaints, recommendations are certainly apprecithe Star as a mouthpiece Urban League before eventu- nity, receiving over one hundred and fifty In addition to offering the secretary of the Omaha the “Unsung Heroine director of the National compliment us. Your comments community in Omaha, nity service awards, including the NAACP, one of ally becoming the executive for the African-American in behalf of the community by editorials. the community to realize ated. The staff is working Award” for service awarded Urban League, contributed Gilberts also encouraged a better and more enlighten honored be to Africanattention call 16,000 power boycotts to and trying to always have people in the country The paper supported the positive effect the buying was small, and is an outstanding cater often only thirty-five time of her death. She paper. Our staff is very if they would carefully she and her staff were with this award by the to discrimination, and Americans could have working to satisfy you.

Lyndon B. Johnson as a businesses that employed team and they are always to also appointed by President their purchases only to support base and I wish well.

East Germany to investigate We have a large religious treated the community goodwill ambassador to African-Americans and for the support of the churches following the conissue of the paper, Edward express sincere thanks, alleged human rights violations worked to improve Specifically, in the second leaders. clergy Omaha the North and the also of She members in the community our struction of the Berlin Gilbert pointed out that least, I want to thank carriers and her office an ice cream shop Last but certainly not the lives of the newspaper black community were patronizing which would be there would not be that someone did not have Ice Cream, advertisers. Without advertising, workers. If she learned of at 24th and Lake, Reed’s published. Advertisements hiring practices over she would buy them bags an Omaha Star Newspaper enough food at home, targeted for their discriminatory an the printing of the publicalarded The newspaper carriPorres Club. Gilbert spent and retail sales pay for groceries to supply their a decade later by the De at least or Easter party advertisers have stuck with counted older Christmas and our of shop special a Many cream tions. us. ers often received hour outside the ice Newer ones have joined work, when they might approving of their us throughout the years. adverin gratitude for their hard one hundred African-Americans that they don’t have to were given all year. their purchasing power.

Others have the feeling them receive the only gifts they hiring practices through Americans we will give in 1989, the Omaha Star divorced in 1943, and tise because as African At the time of her death Mildred and Edward Gilbert in Star readers look at the a circulation of 30,685 her maiden name, Brown. our business anyway. Omaha and had a staff of twenty, and Mildred resumed using for those who support us Mildred Brown wrote, Omaha Star, the longest advertising in the paper thirty-nine states. In 1969, As the publisher of the from those advertisers. persist? The answer newspaper run by a woman, we encourage them to purchase or think our readers “Why then do Negro publishers of his press, all of operating black-owned refuse deprived neighborhood news and For those advertisers, who is clear. If the Negro is Mildred Brown provided to market to, we encourage through the years since than fifty years. The paper are not important enough the tortuous gains achieved commentary for more shop to ask those merchants lost, and tomorrow’s Negro by calling attention to our readers when they his emancipation will be served an important function continue forces, Why they don’t? If they people in the black commuthe mercy of the powerful of at advertise be not will do that youth accomplishments our the man the ramparts of bigthe Omaha Star, I urge values. The newspaper North and South that still to refuse to advertise in $$ nity and emphasizing positive got Mildred Brown their products. Remember who received awards, or otry, prejudice and discrimination.” to do so. From readers to stop buying recognized individuals compelled had previously been closed persisted because she felt speak. new jobs in industries that civic she had established readers, supporters, merIt announced acts of the first edition of her newspaper, Thanks again to my staff, to African-Americans. good writers and all others They highlighted one She guided the newspa- a challenge to herself and her staff, “that no chants advertisers, contributing labeled “troublemakers.” pride and community charity. not of the continued existence eras of the Civil Rights cause shall lack a champion and that evil shall week in order to continue through the tumultuous who lend support to making neighborhood family per staff were On the occasion per to the demonstrations Your help is greatly appreciMildred Brown and her in to foster a sense of community. Ms. Brown again Movement, from segregation the Omaha Star possible. for late go unopposed.” of their community, Brown to the racial unrest of the bright and continued future of the 1950s and 1960s, of the Star’s ninth anniversary, ated. I look forward to a the certainly champions outspoken voice in the wildercommunity, congratulated The Omaha Star reported She was an 1960s and early 1970s. pledged her support to the the Star in the Omaha community.. both locally particular. tortuous gains of their emancipation not of its businesses and that the and the tragedies that occurred ness triumphs North Omaha on the growth end. not her that for was toward up this advice tirelessly Mildred Brown are lost, and she worked and throughout the nation. fast development, and offered get any further a interested in letting discrimination neighbors. wishes to urge that you The Star on its anniversary

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By Lauren Victoria Burke “You can’t rain NNPA Newswire Contributor Stepping Saints, on our parade,” said one of lining up for the as the drill team gathered to the Salem The NAACP has pray before 21st named Derrick Members laughed biennial Native Omahans their board of directors, Johnson, Day parade. as they recalled soaked uniforms the organization’s vice chairman of performing in The unanimous interim president. raindecision was the Saints have over the years, 50 to be exact. committee of For 50 years thrilled crowds the board of directorsmade by the executive stepping and with their precision during the that Association’s stories and much always-on-beat rhythm section. high 108th annual convention Many in Baltimore. The the parade when laughter were shared the NAACP is the night before close to 100 largest team staffers rights organization and oldest civil gathered for their former members and drill celebration.

50th anniversary executive committeein the U.S. The reunion of the board is Saturday morning comprised of 14 during the parade, people. wore name tags the alumni members On May 19, with their dates their participation of service. They announced that the NAACP board consider ministry of Salemservice because they were Cornell William the contract of an outreach Baptist Church.

Brooks, the outgoing team co-founder president, would According Salem’s pastor, Phyllis Hicks, it was in August to drill Brooks’ contract not be renewed. the Rev. J.C. ended on June holding a parade Wade Sr., had 1966 that Brooks began 30. the idea of his Wanting to shineto celebrate Salem’s annual President in May tenure as NAACP Derrick Johnson youth a spotlight on of 2014.

(NAACP) of the church, all of the youth month.

“I am thrilled a quickly began drill team was formed. The Derrick Johnson to announce that my friend girls choreographing and colleague has been appointed while the boys marching routines, CEO. I could interim president developed beats not think of a routines. Many to accompany more qualified better, more battle-testedand the of the young people individual to guide or transition period,” found their the said Leon Russell, NAACP through this niche and after board of the NAACP. their the chairman of the first performance, “Derrick’s longtime encouraged him to take decisive service with the Association Rev. will allow action to deal Wade to make will also serve with daily challenges. as the primary the drill He spokesman for have every confidence team the NAACP. I in Derrick permanent. new endeavor every step of the and will support him in this As the rain way.”

In a statement came is truly an honor released on July 22, Johnson down said and a privilege Saturday morning, president and to be named the that it CEO of an organization interim aboard Ollie decades. the that he’s served Trolley, for “There’s a lot Hicks of work that needs and several of waste any time the getting to it. We to be done and we won’t original members threats to our are facing unprecedented democracy and marveled at the we will not be sea sidelined while of blue created See NAACP by continued on t-shirts worn by the Carolina blue Although page 2 current and alumni illness members as Jeanpierre and keeps Hicks on the sideline, they filled the Jeffrey co-directors Synceree street. as they carry on the Riggs look to her for guidance legacy. and leadership

Omaha Section Salutes 2017 Award , NCNW, Recipients

The Omaha Section - National Council Negro Women of Inc. recognizes individuals community for outstanding achievement. in the year individuals Each are recognized in medicine, education, for excellence involvement, embodimentleadership, community of the Mary Bethune Legacy and youth in excellence.McLeod Awards will be McLeod Bethune presented at the annual Mary Award Luncheon at 11 a.m. at on Aug. 26 the DC Centre, 11830 Stonegate Dr. The community is invited to important event. attend this The keynote speaker Esq., Human Resources is Shawntal M. Smith, and Talent Development Leader for Omaha Precious Davis Home for Boys. also a social Field of Medicine Smith is justice attorney.

Award “Extraordinary The theme is Women: Breaking Barriers, Rising above Lives.” Omaha Challenges, Transforming Section, NCNW women of African advocates for descent as they families and communities. support their It fulfills its mission through research, community based advocacy and national and health, education, services and programs on Omaha Section, and economic empowerment.

NCNW is a 501c3 organization. non-profit Omaha Section Davis, Field of 2017 Award recipients: Precious Rone, Field of Medicine Award; Beverly A. Education Award; Julia D. Anderson Willa Visionary Award; Midder, Theola M. Cooper Cooper, Community Theola M. Community Supporter Award; Supporter Cannon, Bethune Briana Concept Award Book Award; Wasmoen, Bethune Lara Concept Book Denise Lee, Award; Mary McLeod Bethune Legacy Award; Aariona Hagler, Youth Award in Excellence For more information or to obtain contact Perlie tickets, Whitley at 402-320-0375. tickets on-line, For go 2017 Mary McLeodto Eventbrite.com and enter under Search Events Bethune Awards Luncheon or Category.

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“Family is not an important thing, How important it’s everything.” is always been, very family to us? The answer is, and has important. Indulge moment. After me for a brief the overwhelmed by Civil War, Union military officershistory ex-slaves who were were on the roads, for family members searching Agents of the Bureau from whom they had been separated.

Lands, commonly of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned known as the were hired after Freedmen’s Bureau, the war to provide who and ex-slaves, relief to refugees received hundreds requesting assistance of letters from freedmen wrote to the Bureau in locating lost relatives. One ex-slave from Texas with in locating “my a request for assistance own dearest relatives” list of sisters, and included nieces, nephews, whom he had uncles, and in-lawsa long been from twenty-four years separated when he was sold in Virginia before. Others in local newspapers, took out advertisements offering rewards for lost family members (Wilma A. Dunaway, the return of American Family The Africanin England: Cambridge Slavery and Emancipation (Cambridge, University Press, Reconstruction, 20013), 257. 33 82.)

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Marlene Bernstein Matilda Browne Ronald Cisar Ronald Garofolo Dorothy Hallstrom Elizabeth Hoffman Kay Keiser Mellanee Kvasnicka Jerline Leverette Eurleyne Levison Cleo Snyder Beverly Urbach John Waterman Margaret Whitmore Elaine Wiesner

Barbara Davis Nancy Drawbridge Carol Hipp Paul Jensen John Keenan Patrick Kennedy Mary Alice Kubovy Barbara Lebedz Corrine Navarette Rita Ryan Roxanne Smith Carole Stendahl Pinkie Wheatfall Pamela Williams Michael Young

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1991

Ruth Bersagel Dan Daly Kent Day Lois Decker Colleen Eickelman Thomas M. Gaherty Ann Grill Patrick Holston Judith Kerkhoff Evelyn Knutson Jeanne Krelle Dorothy Meisenbach Erwin Rehder Judy Schubert Dorothy Schultz

JoAnne Carlson Janis Christensen Alfred DiMauro Linda Drozda Mary Ann Fields Joan Hobart Larry Jacobsen Mary King Merlin Lempke Terence Mauro Mary Moran Janet Prey Carol Valdrighi Betty Vela Edward Waples 1992

Sally Fellows Robert Frank David Haar Norma Houchin Carol Milliner Mildred Mobley Harris Payne Rebecca Rhoads John Robertson Carol Robson Josalyn Rutledge Dolores Seeley

Joanne Sokalsky Mary Lou Strauss Suzanne Wies

Sandra Slobotski Lisa Young

1993

Karen Brooks Eileen Egan Kristen Freeman Mary Kay Gnam Faye Holmes Kenneth Kielniarz Dolores Kovarik Mary Kay Leatherman Susan L. Nelson Mary Palmesano Terrie Saunders Robert Shirck Lynn Sorensen Sara Wachter Linda M. Wells

Cherie Barg Barbara Carlson James Coulter James Eisenhardt Connie Farmer Linda Heibel Sharon Hempel Susan Koba Myrna Lierz Nancy Matsukis Roland Munro Shirley Roder Lois Rupe Dianne Sedlacek Antoinette Turnquist 1994

Carla Bissell Jack Blanke Beverly Carroll Arlene Christofferson John Dennison Gregory Doty Susan Halpine Diane Hansen Kaye Hensley Sharon Kelly Eunice Levisay Juanita MerriganPotthoff Jerelean Mitchell Dan Whipkey James Yelnek 1995

Carol Berger Marianne Bruner Norman Edwards Harry Gaylor Kristy Gilbert Karen Gustafson Pamela Novacek Christie Miller Patricia Miltner Catherine Neneman Cathleen Pierson Lisa Rush Betty SchulerWeingarten

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Vickie Anderson Marilyn Browder Susan Drumm Carole Gaughan Jacqueline Johnson Ken Koop Margaret Maher Kathleen Maloney Mae McGee Tom Novak Rosemarie Prystai Patrick Ribar Rosemary Santoni Suzanne Van Dusen Brian Walker 1998

Judy Bednarz Mary Grossman Janet Helms Andrea Jensen Hopkinson Thomas Jodlowski Marvin Lodes Nancy McPherson Cheryl Murray Christine Pfeifer Kathrin Rank Peggy Seibel Vicki Smith Sherry Swanger Linda Templeton Keith Thiessen 1999

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Jennifer Beck Michelle Bluford Lyn Bouma Susan Carson Kathleen Casey Carole DeBuse

Shari Hess Shawn Hoschar Karen Johns Michael Krainak Darlene Palmer Russell Parsons Karen Shramek Amy Thomas Dorothy Whitten 2000

Debra Brewer William Deardoff Nancy Emanuel Kris Halbersleben Malia Hammerstrom Gary Kastrick Kathleen Klosterman Judy Kniewel Elma Morrow Phyllis O’Brien Astra Patterson Ann Rowe Leslie Rowland Marjorie Waterman Victoria Wiles 2001

Ann Allen Ella Blakeney Rebecca Buxter Karen Clark Linda Cramer Matthew Deabler Woody Dillman Linda Ely JoAnne Grove Julie Hansen Margaret Hein Jo Ellen Leifert Jennifer Peterson Katherine Snyder Pamela Williams 2002

Phyllis Christiansen Elaine Craig Victoria Deniston-Reed Beverly Fellman Lisa Gatzemeyer Debra Harris Cheri Helmer-Riensche Mary Holiday Johnny Johnson Mary Ellen Johnson Nancy Langenfeld Nancy Lykke Karen McElroy Mark Pursel Linda Trant

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Kathleen Anderson Karen Cirulis Rita Glass Amy Hansen Kim Kromberg Hugh Lawson John Moore Judy Pelowski Lynn Petersen Gwen Powell Steven Pulverenti Kenyon Sharp Joan Tekippe Marsha Urban Deborah Ward 2004

Nancy Allgood Elizabeth Barbary Anthony ClarkKaczmarek Susan Cloyed Bridget Donovan Sue Durfee Shelly Eisenman Brenda Ellis Kristy Fahnolz Linda Ganzel Elsie Scharton Sharon Smith Susan Troyer Ann Underriner Michaela Vanacek 2005

Wendy Badders Nancy Burkhart Ann Chapman Marilyn Donohoe Larry Flairty Irma Franco Brenda Harris Janis Keim Deborah Madej Carolyn Nickerson Jeffrey Potter Sheri Stewart Sara Tingelhoff Adriana Vargas Ruth Wassom 2006

Jay Ball Mindy Bechaz Laura Callahan Judi Crick Sally Domet Nita Frost Carole Kline Nancy Marty

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Robert Naujokaitis Denise Niemann Susan Page Bonnie Smith Kristi Tjelle Scott Wilson Kim Wyllie 2007

Cynthia Boettner Jenna Buckley Connie Coltrane Sharon Daugherty Jennifer Di Ruocco Jo Ann Flaxbeard Pamela Galus Nancy Gengler Virginia Gerhardt Sandra Guzallis Susana Lara Jennifer Loges Gail May Carla Phister Jennifer Stastny 2008

Christina Berzina Penny Coonce Karen Drickey Ronda Harvey-Shaheen Lindsey Holley Kimberly Juranek Doug Keel Sarah Powers Michaela Reilly William Scarborough Mary Steinbruck Melissa Stern Judy Storm Peter Wilger Jeff York 2009

Colleen Aagesen Cari Briscoe Kim Cooper Matthew Geerts John Gibson Amanda Gilmore Linda Hankins Myra Hudson Cheryl Hurley Kelly Karkosky Renee McMains Deborah Mosier Elizabeth Preston Charles Thomas Jennifer Thompson

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Cathy Andrus Robert Bacome Thelma Bell Sally Rosanne Carmichael William Cosgrove Cathy Eichorn Margo Forsythe Faith Keim Kelene Langenfeld Marcella Mahoney Chad McAndrews Luisa Palomo Sara Point Kathleen Prusha Deana Rainey 2011

Barbara Brimmerman Mary Ann Caputo Benjamin Darling Howard Faber Sherri Frisbie Shana Frodyma Jan Haun Darren Holley Lisa Jorgensen Robin Knudtson William Lovgren Angela Meyer Gregory Sand Anton Schmidt Maria Walinski-Peterson 2012

Michelle Avilla Jamie Brown Judy Brown Emily Dolphens Cindy Farrell Joe Gregory Laurie Janecek Lee Kallstrom Connie Kellen Kerri Kratina Eric Lundberg Abbey McNair Ruth Powell Anthony Schik Mark Seaberg 2013

Tanya Archie Heather Bryan Patrick Derr Rebecca Herskovitz Mary Lincoln Teri Lisko

Lori Maestas Donna McGonigal Nancy RampeyBiniamow Dara Rosenberg Diane Sorensen Cindy Thielfoldt Connie Tippery Linda Vernon Linda Wood 2014

Brad Armstrong Jay Beyer Stephanie Carlson-Pruch Jane Colling Cheryl Connors Darci Coolidge Joyce Hurless Melissa Kandido Jennifer Kawecki Brenda Larsen Shari McWilliams Tracey Menten Angela Page Melissa Peterson Karolyn Roby 2015

Cassie Benzel Dawn Buller-Kirke Raquel Caldwell Annie Catania Cynthia Gamerl Sharon Hostler Jennifer MagnusonStessman Mary Malone James Mayberger Therese McGee Sarah Monzu Cathy Nelson Diane Stauffer Angela Tetschner Irene Urzendowski 2016

Rachael Baxa Barbara Boltinghouse Thomas Gamble

Amanda Gutierrez John Huber Krystal Kolb Daniel Lopez Jennifer Miller Michael Mingo Catrina Nahayo Daniel Nowak Holly Ortega John Tripp Carolynn Virgillito David Weisser 2017

Amye Aggen Thomas Allen Amy Batten Connie Colton Patricia Freyermuth Tomie Green Kathleen Higgins Pamela Homan Randall Howard Jodi Kelly Leandra London Pamela Schmeits Celio Silva Kimberly Talamantes Julie Trimble