It’s about goddamn time we address our common reality, we’re all growing tired of this gutless spectacle. It’s a sticky and ruthless game to speak of the truth, but it’s the only thing our flimsy perceptions and whimsical urges have in common, and even lies (good ones) lean on it…

In 1966 Ernie Chambers spoke these words: “The few particulars that make Omaha different from New York are just incidental. The problem exists because white people think they’re better than black people and they want to oppress us and they want us to allow ourselves to be oppressed.” Yesterday an…

Today, I marched. On this historic day in Omaha, Nebraska I marched for someone other than myself. As an educator and writer, I marched because I understand. I understand because I know what it is to struggle, yet throughout my own struggle I have never had to be Black in…

(5/31/2020) Omaha, Nebraska tonight was a ghost town anywhere West of the Douglas County Courthouse with the exception of a lone Channel 3 News crew at an empty intersection at 72nd and Dodge. Police had announced a curfew, state of emergency…

(5/30/2020) Tonight I witnessed the savage display of the power of the state. Large men with tiny souls dressed to the nines in tactical garb occupied an Omaha intersection. Here in the largest city of my home state I witnessed the abuse of many of my fellow citizens. …