Love is the founder and CEO of a
nonprofit organization in Omaha called the Institute for Urban Development. In 2021, Love launched an effort to promote the history of African Americans in Omaha focused on facilitating tours in
North Omaha. Love worked as an adjunct professor at the
University of Nebraska Omaha. He is a columnist for the
Omaha World-Herald and a contributor to the
Fine Lines Journal.
Politics Love served as vice-president of the
NAACP chapter in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1990, Love formed an organization to recommend the addition of the contributions of black Nebraskans to the Nebraska Blue Book. In 1992, Love ran for a seat on the Metropolitan Utilities District board, but later withdrew to recover from his addictions. Love later became second associate chair in the
Nebraska Democratic Party. Love supported freeing
Edward Poindexter, who he knew as a child, from his life-sentence. The Nebraska Democratic Party attempted to replace Janicek with Alisha Shelton, but Janicek refused to drop out preventing the replacement. Love later announced his intention to run a write-in senatorial campaign and received the support of the Nebraska Democratic Party, making him the first black person to receive the support of a major party for
United States Senate in Nebraska. Love was the Democratic candidate in the
2024 United States Senate special election in Nebraska. He ran unopposed in the primary and faced incumbent senator
Pete Ricketts in the general election. He lost the race to Ricketts by over 25 percentage points. ==Electoral history==