KCUR 89.3 Willa Robinson s book store operates out of 1734 E. 63rd Street. Clarity Development Company purchased the building in December.
An Omaha developer purchased an office building that serves as an incubator for Black-owned businesses, but no one has told those business owners what to expect.
Willa Robinson will probably need to relocate her store, Willa’s Books and Vinyl, which she’s operated out of the Citadel Office Building at 1734 E. 63
rd Street since 2015. She’s heard a rumor that the building will be torn down in the fall.
Neither the new developer, Clarity Development Company of Omaha, Nebraska, or the former local owner, John Barbieri, has mentioned the possibility of dislocation to her or the other 150 mostly Black tenants in the building. However, a recent article in the
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Hottie Against Hate
Actress Olivia Munn has called for an end to the rising anti-Asian hate crimes in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic in an Instagram post. These hate crimes have spiked since Covid and continue to increase even though we ask for help, even though we ask our fellow Americans to be out raged for us, even though we ask for more mainstream media coverage, Munn said.
Final Note For Jazz Legend
Keyboard virtuoso Chick Corea, who pushed the melodic boundaries of jazz during his five-decade career, has died of a rare form of cancer, his family announced Wednesday. Corea, who was 79, had only recently been diagnosed with the disease before he died on Tuesday.
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