Omaha community activist and leader (my Dad) honored on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018: Dr. Rod Wead Street Naming

Media Advisory Omaha Community Leader’s Street Renaming Ceremony: Dr. Rodney Sam Wead ____________________________________ WHEN: 1:30 p.m., Friday, September 14, 2018 WHERE: 52nd and Ames Avenue (Ceremony may be held one block from official site @52nd and Fowler Avenue in the interest of safety) WHAT: Omaha City Council President Ben Gray introduced the proclamation and received

Riot Days of my Life: 3.4.1968 and 4.4.1968

When I was 10 years old, my world as I knew it in Omaha, Nebraska, changed. Two riots and my ‘gentle giant’ Dad cruelly, physically battered by the police within a 30-day period that spring,  shook me wide awake. It was the year I decided that I would become a journalist. To get ready for