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About Amy

Amy Helene Forss currently serves as Metropolitan Community College’s History program coordinator and Social Sciences …

Best 2011 Article

In the Nebraska History Journal: “Mildred Brown and the De Porres Club: Collective Activism in Omaha, Nebraska’s Near North Side, 1947-1960.

Best 2014 Non-Fiction

Nebraska Biography: “Black Print with a White Carnation, Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989.”

Children’s Book Adaptation

“Newspapers & Butter Pecan Ice Cream” is the children’s picture book version of “Black Print with a White Carnation,” for 2nd to 4th grade level.

Educator and Author

Teaching Future Generations by Examining our History
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This is a valuable addition to our knowledge of the role of the black press in urban race relations in the Midwest.

Oliver B. Pollack, Nebraska History
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Superbly researched.

Geitner Simmons, Middle West Review

Review of Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989

Fred Carroll, Ph.D.

Review of Black Print with a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989

Rachel Pierce

From the desk of Amy Helene Forss

Ice Cream for Everyone! The Scoop on Mildred D. Brown.  A look into Amy Helene Forss’s children’s book.

From the desk of Amy Helene Forss

A Second Scoop of Mildred D. Brown: Newspapers and Butter Pecan Ice Cream.  Part II of the look into Amy Helene Forss’s children’s book.

From the desk of Amy Helene Forss

A Triple Scoop of Newspapers and Butter Pecan Ice Cream.  Part III of the look into Amy Helene Forss’s children’s book.