Many collegiate student-athletes transfer. But playing for three different schools, as Creighton senior men’s basketball center Manny Suarez has done, is unusual. All four transfers on the CU team roster have a story. In the case of Suarez, he graduated early from Division II Adelphi University, where he landed after a year at Division I Fordham. Now the 24-year-old […]
“We have to start the healing process,” Brewer said said. “We don’t have the resources to help our people. Our children go to school every day. Many of them are abused mentally, physically, sexually abused. And they get to school and we have no resources to really help them.” Omaha attorney Dave Domina, who brought […]
The decision was a dream come true for Sen. Tom Brewer, the first Native state senator in Nebraska history whose district encompasses Whiteclay. After the vote, the Oglala Lakota U.S. Army war veteran-turned-politician gave a jubilant fist pump and broke into a wide smile. “To hear those words come out of their mouth, you just […]
In collaboration with Boystown South Omaha, El Museo Latino presents Las Posadas, a Spanish holiday tradition of singing and remembrance. The words translate to “accommodation” and describes a song about Mary and Joseph (parents of Jesus) asking for lodging while they traveled. It is considered a common Christmas song where the singers portray the voices […]
Editor’s Note: University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors Joe Starita, Bill Frakes and Rebekka Schlichting worked with nine journalism students to shine a “blazing light on the darkest spot in Nebraska,” according to Starita. The results of that effort – “The Wounds of Whiteclay” — not only played a role in the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission’s decision […]
“I was deputy commander of the fire department and I had to rescue the lifeless bodies of the 36 deceased,” says Tony Vega, owner of Plaza Latina on South 24th Street. According to Vega, the earthquake that struck Mexico in 1985 devastated his hometown of Guzman, Jalisco and it is something that truly impacted his […]
Welcome back to the 2017-2018 school year! I hope your summer was filled with relaxation, fun, fond memories and quality time spent with your families. I am honored to continue on as a part of the OPS family for another year and would like to take this opportunity to thank the OPS community for your […]
“To this day, everything I have accomplished has been thanks to God’s grace,” said radio announcer Alex Nuñez, who is looking better than ever. Nuñez started his career at his natal El Salvador, and he continued in this country at La Luz (KOTK 1420), the first Spanish language Christian radio station, which began broadcasting its […]
“Who wouldn’t want to avoid waking up in the morning saying ‘oh God, everything hurts!’ or something like ‘I can’t move today, so I better stay home and not go to work’? It is awful when we have to go to work and complain from pain all day or feel as if our legs are […]
The Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME) and the Secretariat of Public Education announce the release of the National Emergent Academic Program for Higher Education Studies Completion (PUENTES) program from the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES). This program has the objective that Mexicans living and studying in the United States who wish […]
