Throughout history, women have had to fight the so-called “glass ceiling” to access some jobs. However, some decide to become their own bosses, despite dealing with the entrenched machismo of Latin culture. Here we look at three of the many stories of Hispanic women in Omaha who broke that ceiling and decided to start their own […]
New state standards center marginalized voices, but students say their education remains whitewashed. Every day in seventh grade social studies is the same for Ángeles Mora Dominguez. PowerPoint slides pass by as she jots down notes from a book that offers praise for Christopher Columbus and suggests some slaveholders were benevolent. For years, the 13-year-old […]
By Karlha Velasquez His tattoos are evidence of his history. The marks left behind from a messy life have been erased from his face and his current job, but not from his mind. When he was 11 years old, Alberto Castillo González, or Beto as he is known in Omaha, started to feel what he […]
By Chris Bowling – The Reader Nebraska missed an opportunity to protect its essential meatpacking workers, but 2021 brings new hope. The workers told stories of wet masks splotched with blood. One woman said she asked a supervisor to use the bathroom because she’d had her period. He wiped his hand through the blood of […]
By JoAnna LeFlores-Ejike* Focused on engaging students, increasing graduation rates and connecting high school classes to life after graduation, Omaha Public Schools announced a new chapter of opportunities for students: The Omaha Public Schools College & Career Academies and Pathways. Beginning in Fall 2021, the program is the result of detailed evaluations, planning for future […]
By Miltiño Ochoa* This Wednesday, Nov. 25, the god of the football world, Diego Armando Maradona, left for the heavenly fields. He left several indelible marks through his life of 60 years on Earth. Maradona died at his residence at the age of 60, he was with his relatives, when he suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest […]
Story and Photos by Chris Bowling and Alex Preston A ballot box outside the Charles B. Washington branch of the Omaha Public Library on the morning of Nov. 3, 2020. Photo by Chris Bowling. The sky faded from black to cobalt and finally soft pink as the city began to stir. The clang of construction […]
By Karlha Velasquez Rivas *Published on the November print issue. A bucket of cold water fell to Juan González when he saw in the news that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ended the Temporary Protection Status (TPS) that benefited 300,000 immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Syria, Honduras, Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan. The […]
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 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 […]
