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russcontreras, 1 month ago to random

Latina civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, who strongly backed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential run and stood next to him moments before he was shot, is urging RFK Jr. to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. #rfk #rfkjr #latino https://www.axios.com/2024/04/10/rfk-jr-kennedys-dolores-huerta-latino-outreach

russcontreras, 2 months ago to random

A new monument and sculpture park honoring 10 million enslaved Black people in the United States is opening next week in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park and National Monument to Freedom will become the closest the U.S. has to a national monument to the victims of enslavement. https://www.axios.com/2024/03/23/national-monument-enslaved-black-people-eji #axios

russcontreras, 2 months ago to writing

A novel that Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez had ordered destroyed before his death has been released and is drawing mixed reviews
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/gabriel-garcia-marquez-until-august-texas #writing #axios #axioslatino

russcontreras, 3 months ago to random

Meet Anthony Aceved, a WWII soldier who was captured by the Nazis. He's the 1st Mexican American on the US Holocaust Museum 's Registry of Holocaust Survivors.

His family also fell victim to 1930s mass deportations. Read his story tomorrow in #Axios Latino, Subscribe here: https://www.axios.com/signup/latino

russcontreras, 4 months ago to random

The number of Holocaust survivors globally has dwindled to less than a quarter of a million, and many are struggling with poverty in their final years, a new demographic study has found. #holocaust #axios

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/24/holocaust-survivors-worldwide-study-israel-us

russcontreras, 4 months ago to random

Generation Z adults are less likely than older generations to join an established religion, far more likely to identify as LGBTQ and generally are less likely to be Republican, a new survey shows.

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/23/gen-z-less-religious-more-liberal-lgbtq

russcontreras, 4 months ago to random

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army, seeking the return of the remains of two children who died at the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School #native #axios

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/18/winnebago-tribe-us-army-carlisle-boarding-school

russcontreras, 4 months ago to random

The Navajo Nation, one of the nation's largest Indigenous tribes, is asking that human remains not be placed on the moon as planned by two private companies scheduled next week. #indigenous #axios https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/navajo-nation-human-remains-moon-sacred

russcontreras, 4 months ago to random

I'll tell you a secret. We will survive 2024. Bring it.

Happy New Year! #happynewyear

russcontreras, 5 months ago to random

The phrase "poisoning the blood of our country" has a deep racist and antisemitic history, and the comments come as some Republicans have openly endorsed the once-fringe and racist "white replacement theory." @axios Explains #axios https://www.axios.com/2023/12/30/trump-poisoning-the-blood-racism

russcontreras, 5 months ago to random

‘Maybe Christmas will stop the war’: A child’s hope and other scenes from Bethlehem.

An essay from Mexican American writer Stephanie Saldaña who lives in Bethlehem. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2023/12/21/advent-bethlehem-wartime-246752

russcontreras, 6 months ago to random

Arab American and Muslim American anger over President Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war could be endangering his re-election in the majority of 2024 swing states.

Michigan, Virginia, Georgia, AZ and Penn all have notable pockets of these populations

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/arab-american-voter-defections-biden-2024

russcontreras, 6 months ago to random

Damn Gen X only dominated the US workforce for 7 years beginning around 2010. We get no respect (and we don't care). Oh well.

Gen Z is expected to overtake baby boomers in the workforce by next year, per a new analysis of census data from Glassdoor, @axios' Emily Peck reports https://www.axios.com/2023/11/22/gen-z-boomers-work-census-data

russcontreras, 6 months ago to random

When JFK took power, he began a massive effort to reset relations in Latin America. On this 60-year mark of his assassination, Axios Latino is examining Kennedy's legacy in the region #jfk #vivakennedy #axios #axioslatino https://www.axios.com/2023/11/21/jfk-kennedy-latin-america-legacy

russcontreras, 6 months ago to random

Former President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy were only supposed to drop by and say hi during a Nov. 21, 1963, gathering of Mexican American activists in Houston. Instead, something special happened 60 years ago today #jfk #lulac #vivakennedy #axios #axioslatino

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/21/jfk-kennedy-latino-civil-rights-dallas-houston-lulac

russcontreras, 6 months ago to random

Here's JFK visiting Los Alamos Lab in 1962. Next week marks the 60th anniversary of his assassination. It's also the 60th anniversary of his visit with Mexican American civil rights leaders on his last night alive. Subscribe to Axios Latino for a special JFK edition next week! https://www.axios.com/signup/latino

russcontreras, 6 months ago to random

On this Dia de Los Muertos during these troubled times we are paying homage to the defenders and liberators in our family. They fought against bigotry abroad then returned to fight bigotry on home. May their spirits and examples give us strength. #diademuertos #diadelosmuertos

russcontreras, 7 months ago to random

A California listening tour looks for solutions to poverty. Influenced by New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's "poverty tour" of the 1960s, EPIC is collecting stories and crafting legislative proposals aimed at tackling barriers to upward mobility #poverty #axios https://www.axios.com/2023/10/30/california-tour-poverty-epic-michael-tubbs

russcontreras, 7 months ago to random

The federal trial for the former Louisville Metro Police detective linked to the killing of Breonna Taylor is scheduled to begin Monday after months of delays #blm #BreonnaTaylor #axios https://www.axios.com/2023/10/29/breonna-taylor-louisville-police-trial

russcontreras, 7 months ago to random

Having childhood traumatic memories right now.

Astros lose tonite and season ends one game short of the World Series. Will always ride with @astros til the day I die. #Ready2Reign

russcontreras, 7 months ago to wildlife

LISTEN: Coyotes yelling on a cool autumn New Mexico night in October #coyote #wildlife #wildlifeplanet #NewMexicoTrue

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russcontreras, 7 months ago to random

Since 1992, the U.S. has quadrupled the number of Border Patrol agents — from less than 5,000 to nearly 20,000 today.

Barriers, walls, and fences have been erected along portions of the 1,951-mile U.S.-Mexico border, in addition to new Border Patrol outposts and high-tech surveillance systems.

The idea that the U.S. has an "open border" is false. We explain. With fact. #border #immigration

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/17/us-mexico-border-open-borders-myth

russcontreras, 7 months ago to random

Violent crime in the U.S. dropped last year, but property crimes skyrocketed, according to data in the FBI's annual crime report released Monday #axios #crime #fbi https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/fbi-violent-crime-data

russcontreras, 7 months ago to random

Alabama will see a new monument honoring four million enslaved Black people who were emancipated at the end of the Civil War https://www.axios.com/2023/10/13/monument-enslaved-black-people-alabama

russcontreras, 7 months ago to random

My 2019 explainer on Christopher Columbus, who he was, how he became a hero to some immigrants and the reaction by Indigenous people once they became organized.

https://www.ksl.com/article/46654386/ap-explains-columbus-once-immigrant-hero-now-heel-to-some