Cowboy Carter think pieces and the chronic erasure of Mexico, vaqueros, jaripeos, charrería, ranchos, and música ranchera.

✊🏽✊🏾✊ In solidarity with dozens of UT Austin staff who were fired in a purge of employees who had formerly worked in #DEI positions, we wrote today to Jay Hartzell to demand that they be reinstated and that UT DCCE be restored. aaup-utaustin.org/wp-content/upl…

“They keep bringing in more and more industry and there is no water,” he said. “It’s a horrible disaster just waiting to happen.”  insideclimatenews.org/news/11042024/…

“Palestine represents to this generation what South Africa represented to older generations, & the sense that it has to be incorporated into every social justice agenda, particularly now given this genocidal assault on the people of Gaza.” -Angela Davis
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📸:Mondoweiss

🔥🔥🔥 Super excited this event is finally here

The Latino Racial Justice Circle is raising money to support the families of the 6 victims of the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse, immigrants who were supporting partners and children in the Southeast Baltimore and Dundalk communities. gofundme.com/f/support-for-…

It is being reported that the missing workers are immigrants from Latin America who were doing construction on Key Bridge.

I am thinking of their families and the many immigrants who have encountered tragedy working in the country they came to seeking a better life.

Meet Los Shinigamis del Norte, a band that fuses a love of anime with norteño latimes.com/delos/story/20…

Very excited to host these scholars who are going to bring the 🔥 to the Latinxxx Sexual Economies symposium at Yale on April 5th. This is an in-person event. Space is limited and registration is suggested: bit.ly/latinxxxsexual…

MY LATEST ⁦Los Angeles Times⁩ COLUMNA: Cal-Mex is having a moment in New York. But how does it taste? RT, porfas! latimes.com/california/sto…

From the March/April issue by Gus Bova 🗒️.

'Puro Pinche Palestina': In San Antonio, a community coalesces around solidarity with Gaza texasobserver.org/puro-pinche-pa…

In late January, two infants under a year old were forced to wait by Border Patrol 12 hours overnight in the cold rain without shelter, trapped between the two border walls at an open-air detention site near the San Ysidro port of entry.

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Vintage Ice Man. He scored points every way possible: jumpers, hooks, finger rolls, tip-ins, bank shots...this is why I wrote about him in THE SPORTS REVOLUTION utpress.utexas.edu/9781477321836/

Yes, I love this Tex Mex Country remake of Folsom Prison Blues by Veronique Medrano

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Tmr!!! We stand with Palestine!

Looking forward to this conference! #187Generation

Descendants of Silvia Hector Webber, the 'Harriet Tubman' of the Underground Railroad to Mexico, are working to resurrect her story. #BHM

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The Underground Railroad to Mexico exposes a neglected history about the Black experience in the Americas. It's likely more enslaved Black people in the US escaped to Mexico than originally thought #bhm #blackhistorymonth axios.com/underground-ra…

So Oxford American gathered all their past articles on Black country music & Black country musicians in one place 🤠
oxfordamerican.org/web-only/black…