A’Jamal Byndon

Hits: 44Are conditions for African Americans better today than in years past? This question has taken on particular relevance as I’ve been following the media coverage and governmental response [...]

Hits: 112We are all weathering this crazy, tragic storm of the coronavirus (COVID-19). This massive group experience reminds me of the book, Blindness, a novel by José Saramago, which describes [...]

Hits: 41Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebras­ka May 19, 1925 and was assassinated February 21, 1965 – 55 years ago. To this day, his evolution from street thug and hustler to one of the [...]

Hits: 237Many in the Omaha African American community are concerned with the resurgent levels of white supremacy, hate crimes, and raw racism on the local as well as national level. In the past [...]

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Hits: 23 During the past year, I have encountered many peculiarities and anomalies affecting low-income communities of color. Taken as a whole, it is apparent we have the blind leading the blind. [...]

Hits: 9   A’Jamal Byndon is the Chair of the PRI board of directors and an adjunct professor at UNO. This article is reprinted from the March/April, 2019 edition of The Nebraska [...]

Hits: 15   By A’Jamal-Rashad Byndon Years ago, Dr. Theresa Barron McKeagney, former Director of the UNO Grace Abbott School of Social Work, shared with me that the University of Nebraska [...]

Hits: 12 The level of incivility that we’ve seen exhibited the last several months illustrates how deep-rooted are the problems and challenges our communities are facing. In my environment, both [...]

Hits: 12 Racism is at the heart of a big problem in our country: the problem of white people—when compared to people of color—having a disproportionately higher percentage of the good jobs, nice [...]