News Category: texas

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.

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. 

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.