Christopher Carmona

New west-side mural honors Mexican American trailblazers near downtown A massive new mural celebrating community and culture was unveiled Wednesday at University Health’s Robert B. Green campus.

Jovita Idar is honored in San Antonio!!!

Pretti Shooting Thrusts Border Patrol’s History of Aggressive Tactics Into View

The violence against immigrants, protesters and civilian observers in Minneapolis has sparked renewed calls for oversight of the Border Patrol. It is a pattern abuse with a long history in Mexican American communities on the border, icymi from me and Eileen Sullivan. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission issues final report with 84 recommendations The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission releases its final report, outlining recommendations for repair, accountability, and reconciliation.

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On January 21, 1948, Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi led a successful campaign to block an anti-lynching bill, which would have held members of lynch mobs and local law enforcement officers accountable for their role in racial terror lynchings.

Gertrudis de la Garza Falcón

Doña Gertrudis de la Garza Falcón (1734–1789) was my fifth great grandmother and was the owner of all the Espíritu Santo grant, with its cattle, horses, mules, sheep, and goats and the godmother of the ranching industry as we know it.

Working on my new book, Tending To The Frontera: A Palimpsest of the Texas Borderlands Through the Women Who Shaped It to be published by Texas Tech University Press in 2027.

Jose Clemente Orozco. Detail of " Destruction of the Old Order" 1926 Mexico City - Emiliano Zapata at the center surrounded by corrupt politicians and generals hoarding money.

UT’s diversity of thought is real — and well worth defending | Opinion Diverse areas of study bring diverse perspectives — the hallmark of a great university. Political meddling is threatening that at the University of Texas, Steve Wechsler writes.

From guest columnist + UT faculty member Steve Wechsler: “I do not see evidence of intolerance to diverse views at UT. What I see is a range of departments seeking truth from different angles, creating a university that is greater than the sum of its parts.” ❤️

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CAMINATA: More than 100 gather at La Matanza marker By ALBERT VILLEGAS Special to the NEWS Over 100 people, many participating in a walk of remembrance from W.H. Heavin Memorial Park in San Benito, gathered at the La Matanza 1915 state historical ma…

CAMINATA: More than 100 gather at La Matanza marker – San Benito News www.sbnewspaper.com/2025/11/07/c...

Presenting today at 8:15 AM at the WHA in Albuquerque

Please join us on Thursday, October 9th from 6-8 PM in the OLLU Sueltenfuss Library for our opening reception on the 2nd floor. We will have introductions by Jessie Degallado, legendary reporter and the exhibit creators, Juan Carmona and Nicholle Moreno

From Caging Skies by Christine Leunens

Fronteras: ‘They simply ceased to exist’ — New report aims to identify those killed during state-sanctioned killings The recent report, A Matter of Justice: The Uninvestigated Homicides of La Matanza, aims to pursue justice for the victims of la matanza.

Fronteras: ‘They simply ceased to exist’ — New report aims to identify those killed during state-sanctioned killings | TPR www.tpr.org/podcast/fron...

How Scottboro is refusing to forget its civil rights story The Scottsboro Boys Museum tells the story of nine African American men who were falsely accused of the rape of two white women in 1931

The Scottsboro Boys Museum: How this Alabama town refusing to forget its civil rights story | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/travel/north...

As civil rights books are pulled from school shelves, one Alabama town is refusing to forget its story www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

For more information, contact Christopher Carmona at christophercarmona@icloud.com or Natalie Sanchez-Lopez at natalie@latinotexaspolicycenter.com.

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