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John Treviño was Austin’s first Mexican American City Council member. The journey wasn’t easy.

Oct. 13, 2022

This story first appeared in the Texas Standard. An excerpt can be viewed below. To watch the full story, click here.

Treviño hadn’t considered a career in politics, until a pivotal conversation with his parish priest changed everything

Austin’s first Mexican American City Council member did not initially see himself in a political life – until his parish priest nudged him into “doing more.”

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John Treviño was Austin’s first Mexican American City Council member. The journey wasn’t easy.

Oct. 13, 2022

This story first appeared in the Texas Standard. An excerpt can be viewed below. To watch the full story, click here.

Treviño hadn’t considered a career in politics, until a pivotal conversation with his parish priest changed everything

Austin’s first Mexican American City Council member did not initially see himself in a political life – until his parish priest nudged him into “doing more.”

Read more about John Treviño was Austin’s first Mexican American City Council member. The journey wasn’t easy.

WWII veteran’s run-in with police led him to fight to change Houston institutions

Oct. 7, 2022

This story first appeared in the Texas Standard . An excerpt can be viewed below. To watch the full story, click here.

This story is part of a Hispanic Heritage Month collaboration with Voces Oral History Center based at UT-Austin’s Moody School of Communication.

In the 1940s, Latinos did not hold positions in Houston’s police and fire departments.

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In 1957, this team of Hispanic golfers shocked Texas by winning state

Sept. 19, 2022

This story first appeared in the Texas Standard. An excerpt can be viewed below. To watch the full story, click here.

This story is part of a Hispanic Heritage Month collaboration with Voces Oral History Center based at UT-Austin’s Moody School of Communication.

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Uvalde Vive

Aug. 29, 2022

This story first appeared in the Texas Observer. An excerpt can be viewed below. To watch the full story, click here.”

On the afternoon of July 10, Lalo Castillo, a craggy-faced and sturdy 76-year-old, arrived at the northeast corner of Robb Elementary School in southwest Uvalde, where neighbors and acquaintances began assembling for the largest political protest his hometown had seen in 50 years.

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Uvalde Residents Soul-Searching for Answers After the Massacre

June 28, 2022

This story first appeared in VICE News. An excerpt can be viewed below. To watch the full story click here.

Before the massacre at Robb Elementary, Uvalde was at the center of Mexican Americans' struggle for civil rights, leading one of Texas’ longest school walkouts. Now, this tight-knit community is grappling with how guns played a role in this tragedy.

(This story first appeared in VICE News.)

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A half-century after one movement, ‘Fierce Madres’ in Uvalde call for another

June 23, 2022

This story first appeared in the Washington Post. An excerpt can be viewed below. To watch the full story, click here.

The mothers and grandmothers filed into the school board meeting, a sea of maroon T-shirts with “Fierce Madres” emblazoned on their chests, ready to confront local officials after the shooting at Robb Elementary.

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Uvalde Resiste

June 10, 2022

This story first appeared in Latino USA. An excerpt can be viewed below. To read or listen to the full story click here.

On Tuesday May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old man entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and shot and murdered 19 children, as well as two teachers. The Uvalde community is over 80% Latino and has a population of nearly 25,000 people. The ripple effects of this mass shooting have been felt across this small Mexican-American community, and across the country.