Out of Omaha is heavy and victorious, much like the twin’s uphill battles. Stunted by laws that disproportionately impact Black people, leaving them with few options, North Omaha is where Darcelll and Darrell fight to come of age. Now, over 50 years later, just 6-miles from Nebraska’s more affluent neighborhoods, it’s as if time continues to stand still. The already marginalized region never recovered from the physical and economic ruin. Similar riots would grip the area until 1968.

Decades of racial violence, unjust policy-making, and police killings followed and, in the summer of 1966, Black people expressed their pain with the North Omaha riots. In the early 1900s, Black people in Omaha were legally confined to a segregated part of town and only able to live and purchase a property on the north side. The beginning of the film breaks down the city’s demise starting in the early 20th century, with experts and archival footage explaining North Omaha’s past. But in order to perceive the depth of the brothers’ life challenges and breakthroughs, it’s crucial to understand how their North Omaha environment came to be. The film follows the brothers from the ages of 19 to 25 as they grow through a series of both painful and endearing circumstances. Cole’s Dreamville, bright and kind-hearted twins Darrell and Darcell Trotter find it hard to escape both the hard North Omaha streets and daunting generational trauma. In Out of Omaha, a film directed by Clay Tweel and executive produced by J. Over 85 years later, the stench of racism still lingers throughout North Omaha. Surrounding the house, dishing shotguns and rifles, they shouted for my father to come out,” X wrote. “When my mother was pregnant with me, as she told me later, a party of hooded Klu Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night. It is also the birthplace of Black revolutionary Malcolm X, who began the first words of his famous autobiography with a harrowing account of his hometown’s racism.

Trapped within its flat terrains and borders is a deep and overlooked history of violence and white supremacy - particularly in the city of Omaha.

Dead in the middle of America, the state of Nebraska sits landlocked on all sides.

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