She left without pain and without saying much. The heart of Sofía Barragán de la Luz stopped beating at 74 in an Omaha hospital at 5 a.m. on May 21, 2020. The cause? COVID-19. Ms. Sofía, a woman who never got tired of learning, was born on September 18, 1945 in Chietethlan, a Mexican town […]
By Addie Costello We have got to make sure we register to vote, bring people to register to vote, vote for Democrats and vote down party lines to get things done for North Omaha this year, State Senator Justin Wayne said in an interview on Sept. 17 with Mind and Soul in the Morning. Although […]
Since the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 transmission has disproportinately affected communities of color. In Omaha, the heart of South Omaha and the city’s Latino community, zip code 68107, continues seeing the highest rates of infection in the city. Early on the explanation was simple–COVID-19 spread among the largely immigrant and Latino workforce early in […]
By Marcela Carvajal We are living in a time when information in the media related to the prevention of tobacco use and other nicotine-containing products has been relegated to the background. With the increase in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases worldwide, substantially affecting our community in Nebraska, it is critical to report on the measures that have […]
This Saturday, 297 Latinos will be awarded the International Latino Book Prize (ILBA), one of the most prestigious annual awards in the United States, which has recognized the best Latino writing in the American territory of the last two decades in the Spanish, English and Portuguese languages. The ceremony, which already goes for its 22nd […]
Intro by Will Bauer Nearly 400 Nebraskans have died during the pandemic, but we don’t know much about them. Every day, a health department in the state issues a press release that says a man or a woman of such and such age died. But no more. These people are mothers and fathers, brothers and […]
By Karlha Velásquez Rivas Josefina Ángeles had many questions before the start of this school year. How am I supposed to help run virtual classrooms for my 11 and 6-year-olds? Her answer: the 11-year-old, now a 6th grader will need less help. But the 6-year-old, who is still in kindergarten, needs more attention. Ángeles works […]
By Eneris A. Bernard Santos One World’s coronavirus testing site at 50th and G Street, in South Omaha, will close today Thursday August 20, 2020. According to an article of the Omaha World-Herald, South Omaha’s main COVID-19 testing cite will shut down due to lack of OneWorld employees, who are scheduled to return to their […]
By Karlha Velásquez Rivas Violence has been one of the cancers of society. During the pandemic, it has, unfortunately, seen an increase in many homes during the confinement, as well as on the streets. This could lead to an increase in other crimes in society. In South Omaha, the Police Athletics for Community Engagement program […]
By Karlha Velásquez Rivas Humans have strayed from the nutritional makeup of hunter/gatherer or early agrarian societies. With industrialization and technological development, increases in processing protein and vegetables and the use of agrochemicals, cancer became more common, along with high rates of hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes. In Omaha, a group of people and non-profit […]
