Look for Micro-preemie Baby: I Am Not Alone, to arrive in May of 2026! Micro-preemie Baby will be an illustrated 32-page children's story--illustrations by artist Alissa Hansen---and a keepsake! There will be a front page for your micro-preemie's particulars, photographs of grown up micro-preemies to give you hope, and a section of tips from micro-preemie parents and a NICU nurse I interviewed to create this one of a kind book. My goal is to have Micro-preemie Baby distributed for free to moms nationwide with NICU micro-preemie babies.

 
 
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About Amy

Faculty professor Amy Helene Forss teaches History and Art History at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. She is currently working on her fourth book, Micropreemie Baby: I Am Not Alone.

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.