by Alyssa Aldape | Oct 15, 2021 | Feature, Opinion
Mariachi music, Spanish language music and the Spanish channels playing on my abuelita’s TV were how I connected to a culture and language that I only knew about from my parents’ memories. Sure, it was common in Texas with Tejano radio stations, but to know that...
by Sue Smith | Oct 15, 2021 | Feature-, Opinion
Carmen knew the family was in trouble when her husband Pedro, a farmer, wore out his work boots. Those boots were his only pair of shoes. “They literally fell apart,” she explained. “And we couldn’t afford to replace them.” Juana’s dad was still living with the...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 15, 2021 | Feature-, Opinion
Indigenous cultures and systems existed throughout North America prior to 1492. In his book, 1491, Charles C. Mann chronicles the nuances and complexities of Indigenous cultures and systems, which involved complex social and economic structures for governance,...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 14, 2021 | Opinion
I am a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation whose ancestors lived peacefully on the lands of present-day Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee for centuries. While most everyone knows me as Mitch Randall, my other name was given to me by a Comanche Chief: NUMUKUTSU, which...
by Scott Stearman | Oct 14, 2021 | Opinion
Poverty is not a natural phenomenon. It’s not like a tornado or an earthquake. Poverty is not a necessary state. Nor is it something that falls from the sky. “In the U.S., grim poverty is a tragedy, that great wealth makes a sin,” William Sloan Coffin once declared. I...
by Colin Harris | Oct 14, 2021 | Opinion
Can you explain the distinction between a philosophy and an ideology? A political science professor 50 years ago helped me clarify my thinking around these terms. He suggested that a philosophy is an open-ended search for, and refinement of, an understanding of truth...
