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05/31/2025

Omaha NFL legend Brandin Bryant is doing a football camp for little guys and girls!

11/13/2024

NOVC COMMUNITY BRAND & MARKETING SURVEY

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07/31/2024

Become a part of history with Martin Luther King III Visit to Omaha. Join us for a luncheon! TIckets: https://givebutter.com/MLKLunch

06/16/2024

Nebraska now mural “Leading By Example” mural project with Preston Love Jr NPM PBS airing!

05/10/2024

“With our nation full of division and divisiveness, the anchor of our democracy lies in the opportunity for people to make their voices heard by going to the polls,” said Black Votes Matter’s get out the vote director Pastor Dwayne Hawkins.

GET OUT THE VOTE!

On Thursday, local groups urged North Omaha residents to vote next Tuesday.

05/03/2024

Preston Love Jr. For US Senate is sounding the alarm that Black voter turnout will sag in Nebraska this campaign cycle unless there is greater investment in the state and his own bid. With Black voters heavily concentrated in the battleground district, a dip in participation from that key demographic could cost Biden a win and imperil Democrats’ chances of flipping Omaha’s House seat." Preston Love Jr

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-03/warren-buffett-in-focus-as-democrats-seek-2024-biden-win-in-omaha?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDc0ODUwMSwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MzUzMzAxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQ1dNR1dEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzOENEMkU1OTY0OTI0OTRGQkZFREZGMkFDQ0E3NzU5RCJ9.xtRSOVnyzcCXfF-GbnWd3MM9xhHvnC6aUU_2pIshRxA

The city of Omaha, Nebraska, has become a political focal point as its lone electoral vote may decide who wins the US presidential election.

03/26/2024

Make History, Vote. 2024

03/08/2024

The Black Votes Matter Tour is inviting high school students to complete the application to attend the 2024 Black History Tour!

It's an amazing experience to connect with the history of the Civil Rights movement!

Apply now at bit.ly/BVM-24

01/23/2024

Invite to view my campaign page:
Preston Love Jr. For US Senatel

01/13/2024

Preston Love to run for U.S. Senate

Preston Love Jr plans to make another run for the U.S. Senate.

The longtime North Omaha community and civil rights advocate is expected to formally announce Jan. 17 that he will seek the Democratic Party nomination in the special election this fall to finish the last two years of former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse’s Senate term.

Incumbent GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts, who was appointed to Sasse’s open seat, launched his campaign in August for election to the seat.

Love confirmed his plans Thursday, saying he wants to represent all Nebraskans, not only North Omaha.

“I know I’m an underdog, but we’re going to run at it real strongly,” Love said.

He said he will place “people over privilege and people over politics” and will bridge economic, geographic, racial and other gaps.

“I’m running a lot to bridge the gaps,” said Love, 81. “I’ve been about that my whole career.”

Democrat Todd Newbold of Omaha also has filed for the seat.

Love launched a late write-in Senate candidacy in September 2020 with the backing of the Nebraska Democratic Party after scandal engulfed the Democratic nominee, Chris Janicek. Love received 58,411 votes.

Sasse won that 2020 election but resigned from the Senate in 2022, about two years into his six-year term. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, Ricketts’ successor in the governor’s office, appointed Ricketts in January to Sasse’s open seat.

The Nov. 5 election will determine who will finish the final two years of Sasse’s six-year term. The seat will be up for election again in 2026.

Love, 81, has long been active in politics and civil rights and community advocacy in Omaha, where he grew up and has lived since returning in 2006, and elsewhere, including working as deputy campaign manager for Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign.

In Omaha, Love started and runs the Black Votes Matter Institute of Community Engagement, a nonprofit organization that aims to educate and mobilize voters. He teaches a class at the University of Nebraska at Omaha on the African American experience in politics.

01/12/2024

Make history with us!!

View the Omaha World-Herald Sunrise Edition for Friday, January 12, 2024

01/11/2024

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