Jack and Dan
Story and photos by James Wooldridge Jack Anderson wasn’t going to let Dan Walker win. No way. Not a chance. The two college students swung the Wii remotes up and down in front of...
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Since the Hurricane: Julian’s Story
Story and photos by Elsie Stormberg Hidden within the mountains of Lares, Puerto Rico, was a tiny, dilapidated shack along a sharp turn in the road. Within this broken-down home was a man, one...
When God comes for me: Those left behind after Hurricane Maria
Alberto Cabrera, 61, and Aurea Gonzalez, 60, are the two youngest people in the small village of Media Luna located near the northern coast of Puerto Rico. Only someone related to the Cabreras can...
From the brink: Saving the Puerto Rican parrot
Ricardo Valentin works at the Rio Abajo Aviary, which is part of a program working to breed and release the endangered Puerto Rican parrot. The parrot is indigenous to Puerto Rico and used to...
Election Day in the heart of Lincoln
Editor’s note: Students in the Journalism 302 advanced reporting class have been writing stories about the people and issues in Lincoln’s six core neighborhoods as part of the One Project, One College project. They...
The forgotten pygmies of Uganda
For centuries, the indigenous Batwa people lived in harmony with nature and gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. But in 1991, the government turned their home into a national park and tourist attraction. The...
5-year-old boy faces life-threatening illness in Uganda
By Emily McMinn Mafabi Shadrach is 5 years old. He likes to swing, drink tea and get carried by his dad. But Shadrach is also deathly sick in Uganda, a country with failing health...
Ugandan nurse offers healing, hope to most desperate
With 70 percent of Uganda’s population living outside of major cities, many families live in poverty and hardly have enough money to feed and clothe themselves. When illness strikes, the smallest ailments can turn...
Uganda’s only treatment center closes, leaving nodding syndrome patients without care
Story and photos by Adam Warner In January, the only care center in Uganda for people suffering from nodding syndrome closed its doors because it lacked funding. Since 2012, Hope for Humans provided life-saving...
Ugandan refugee camp filled with stories of despair — and hope
In December 2013, a civil war broke out in South Sudan between the government and rebel groups. Since then, almost one million refugees have fled into northern Uganda, relying primarily on the United Nations...
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