Mr. Willie Brown

Mr. Willie Brown

2019 marks 100 years since Red Summer and the lynching and killing of hundreds of blacks across the county. Willie Brown was lynched in my hometown, Omaha, on Sept  28, 1919. A mob of nearly 10,000, a horde of angry and racist men stormed the courthouse, breaking...

Excerpts “Farthest House”

  Nourish the Soul I was seventeen when my savior arrived in the form..   Thoughts Are Things People often ask me if I think those words are true…   The Lynching of Willie Brown 2019 marks 100 years since Red Summer and the lynching and killing…   Mary...