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Love to speak at Norfolk Martin Luther King, Jr Celebration

BY Northeast Community College | January 11, 2021 Preston Love, Jr. (Courtesy Photo) NORFOLK, Neb. – Preston Love, Jr., founder and director of the Institute for Urban Development in Omaha, will speak during a virtual event in Norfolk commemorating the legacy of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Northeast Community College and the Mayor’s Diversity Council with the City of Norfolk will host the celebration on Mon., Jan. 18, at 1 p.m., in coordination with events that will be held across the nation to observe the federal holiday. Love, an author, playwright and adjunct professor of African-American Experiences in Politics at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, will speak with wisdom derived from his life experiences, which includes organizing Jesse Jackson’s presidential candidacy in 1984 and his crusade and community activism for economi

Northeast Community College receives the largest single donor gift in the institution s history

BY Northeast Community College | December 17, 2020 Northeast Community College, Norfolk campus. (Courtesy Northeast Community College) NORFOLK, Neb. – Christmas has come a week early for Northeast Community College. The institution has received a substantial financial gift that will assist students for generations to come. President Leah Barrett was notified recently that author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott  is donating $15 million to the College, making it the largest single donor contribution in Northeast’s history. Scott is contributing $4.1 billion to 384 organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington D.C. Northeast Community College is among the organizations. Funding comes after Scott and her team took a data-driven approach to identify organizations, including those providing higher education and workforce training. The team chose o

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