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A Collaborative Effort Joins North Omaha And Convences A Joint Effort To Hold Oppd Accountable For Toxics From Coal Burning, Preston Love Jr.
A Collaborative Effort Joins North Omaha And Convences A Joint Effort To Hold Oppd Accountable For Toxics From Coal Burning, Preston Love Jr.
Black Studies Faculty Publications
I share an important issue affecting all of Omaha but critically affecting North Omaha residents. Coal burning creates toxic air and many other public health issues. Coal plants are responsible for 42 percent of US mercury emissions, a toxic heavy metal that can damage the nervous, digestive, and immune systems, and is a serious threat to the child development. Just 1/70th of a teaspoon of mercury deposited on a 25-acre lake can make the fish unsafe to eat. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Emissions Inventory, US coal power plants emitted 45,676 pounds of mercury in 2014 …
North Omaha Begins A New Chapter, Preston Love Jr.
North Omaha Begins A New Chapter, Preston Love Jr.
Black Studies Faculty Publications
Preston Love Jr.'s Community Columnist web article discusses the historical economic devastation that this community experienced for generations, and the new chapter full of potential for North Omaha.
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Journal of Religion & Film
Black Panther (2018) not only heralded a new future for representation in big-budget films but also gave an alternative vision of the past, one which recasts the Enlightenment within an African context. By going through its technological enlightenment in isolation from Western ideals and dominance, Wakanda opens a space for reflecting on alternate ways progress can—and still might—unfold. More specifically, this alternative history creates room for reimagining how modernity—with its myriad social, scientific, and religious paradigm shifts—could have negotiated questions of race, and, in turn, how race could have informed and redirected some of the lesser impulses of modernity. Similar …
Alice, Sheila J. Nayar
Alice, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Alice (2022), directed by Krystin Ver Linden.
Descendant, Sheila J. Nayar
Descendant, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Descendant (2022), directed by Margaret Brown.
Truth Can Save Democracy, Preston Love Jr.
Truth Can Save Democracy, Preston Love Jr.
Black Studies Faculty Publications
As part of a national effort, to mourn the anniversary of the insurrection that took place on January 6, 2021, another national effort occurred on January 6, 2022. Here in Omaha and in over 230 cities vigils occurred with a focus towards a “call to action,” a very important day of remembrance and call for action, directed towards an affirmation of Democracy.