Flatwater Free PressFor decades, traditional media has overlooked, well, a lot of people. We set out to do the opposite. One fourth of our stories should focus on black people, brown people, immigrants and our native communities.
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The Native woman wearing feathers in her braided hair took a seat facing eight members of the Nebraska Legislature. Alice Johnson stared down at the paper in her…
It happened on a late spring Saturday afternoon in Omaha. The cool mid-May breeze caused the fans ringing Westside High School’s modest football field to curl up under…
NorthStar Foundation currently works with over 50 Omaha-area private and public schools to provide after-school and summer programming for over 450 boys, grades 3 through 12. The after-school…
With her laptop open and credit card out, Allyson Mendoza watched the clock flip from 7:59 to 8:00 am. ‘Register now’ popped up on her screen. The mother…
In October, the Flatwater Free Press wrote about the incredible thing that happened after the Omaha Tribe and a group of Nebraskans built a skate park in Walthill,…
MCCOOK – In a 100-year-old building in downtown McCook, push the round number six and an elevator ride takes you up, up, up to the highest floor in…
Kids in the hallway smile more than they have in the past. Laughs are a little louder than they once were, teachers say. Student pride – and the…
WALTHILL-The children of the Omaha Reservation begin descending on the town park in late afternoon. They arrive unannounced in twos and threes on a recent Monday, cluster in…
It is no small task to preserve a people’s legacy. It involves collecting even the smallest personal stories – a grandfather and his neighbors digging out a basement…
Earnest Jackson is innocent and should be released from prison, say two family members of the man he’s convicted of murdering. Their public support of Jackson is the…