Stu Pospisil
Omaha World-Herald
On July 9, 1938, the Omaha Star, a weekly publication and Nebraska's only Black-owned newspaper, put out its first issue.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
The photographer was born in Lincoln and spent his life in a frame house on A Street, where a red-brick apartment building with long, narrow windows has risen in its place.
He lived with his parents — his father a runaway slave and Civil War veteran — and later with his widowed mother and later yet with his wife, Odessa.
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You can see her life’s passion in all the places Leola Bullock stood her ground.
Week after week, year after year, in front of the governor’s mansion: The NAACP Opposes Legal Lynching.
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He stood at the front of his classroom, a trailblazer in teacher’s clothing.
Mr. Forrest Stith was a presence at Millard Lefler Junior High, filling the blackboard in his social studies class with words, like a mathematician writing a complicated equation.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
Lenora Letcher baked the communion bread at her church, the black congregation of Mount Zion Baptist.
She fed members of Beta Sigma Psi at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, nearly all of them young white men.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
Vote for THE MAN, the campaign ad urged.
It was 1969, and that man was Harry “Pete” Peterson, who was running for a seat on the Lincoln City Council.
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: Ruth Cox Adams, beloved adopted sister of Frederick Douglass, at rest in Lincoln
- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
The newspaper story called her an “old colored lady.”
It said Ruth Cox Adams lived at 410 Second St. in Norfolk. It said she “first saw the light of day from a little Maryland cabin.”
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
He wore sunglasses when he ran.
He won six NCAA track titles in those shades during his college career at the University of Nebraska, a seven-time All-American who took home bronze and gold medals at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
Nate Woods walked the streets of the neighborhood that summer.
Knocking on doors, delivering a message: Hey, the Malone is open again! Come on by ...
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Celebrating Black History Month: Stories of influential black Lincolnites by Cindy Lange-Kubick
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
The mother sat on the superintendent's front steps.
She waited for Steven Watkins to get home.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
There’s a portrait of Barack Obama under the American flag in Brittney Hodges-Bolkovac’s classroom.
There’s John Lewis near the pencil sharpener — the civil rights hero during his Freedom Rider days, in shades of black and white and blue.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
Melanie and John Ways met in Camden, New Jersey.
John was 7. Mel was 5.
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Celebrating Black History Month: Stories of influential black Lincolnites by Cindy Lange-Kubick
Columnist Cindy Lange-Kubick devoted her February columns to influential members of Lincoln's African-American community, past and present.
- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
The photographer was born in Lincoln and spent his life in a frame house on A Street, where a red-brick apartment building with long, narrow windows has risen in its place.
He lived with his parents — his father a runaway slave and Civil War veteran — and later with his widowed mother and later yet with his wife, Odessa.
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You can see her life’s passion in all the places Leola Bullock stood her ground.
Week after week, year after year, in front of the governor’s mansion: The NAACP Opposes Legal Lynching.
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He stood at the front of his classroom, a trailblazer in teacher’s clothing.
Mr. Forrest Stith was a presence at Millard Lefler Junior High, filling the blackboard in his social studies class with words, like a mathematician writing a complicated equation.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
Lenora Letcher baked the communion bread at her church, the black congregation of Mount Zion Baptist.
She fed members of Beta Sigma Psi at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, nearly all of them young white men.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
Vote for THE MAN, the campaign ad urged.
It was 1969, and that man was Harry “Pete” Peterson, who was running for a seat on the Lincoln City Council.
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Cindy Lange-Kubick: Ruth Cox Adams, beloved adopted sister of Frederick Douglass, at rest in Lincoln
- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
The newspaper story called her an “old colored lady.”
It said Ruth Cox Adams lived at 410 Second St. in Norfolk. It said she “first saw the light of day from a little Maryland cabin.”
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
He wore sunglasses when he ran.
He won six NCAA track titles in those shades during his college career at the University of Nebraska, a seven-time All-American who took home bronze and gold medals at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
Nate Woods walked the streets of the neighborhood that summer.
Knocking on doors, delivering a message: Hey, the Malone is open again! Come on by ...
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Celebrating Black History Month: Stories of influential black Lincolnites by Cindy Lange-Kubick
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
The mother sat on the superintendent's front steps.
She waited for Steven Watkins to get home.
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- CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Column
There’s a portrait of Barack Obama under the American flag in Brittney Hodges-Bolkovac’s classroom.
There’s John Lewis near the pencil sharpener — the civil rights hero during his Freedom Rider days, in shades of black and white and blue.
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Melanie and John Ways met in Camden, New Jersey.
John was 7. Mel was 5.
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