In this hard but necessary read, Roberto José Andrade Franco writes about one Uvalde family’s loss, and a small-town Texas community on the edge of the Nueces Strip that has changed forever. Franco beautifully honors the life of 10-year-old Tess Mata, a softball player and student murdered in the Robb Elementary School shooting, and traces […]
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Under the Wheel
“I have always been drawn to stories about people who try to escape — escape their neighborhoods, their families, their histories — and who instead become what they were running from.”
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The Billion Dollar Question
“Why can’t the military fix its violence against women problem?”
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‘The Foot Soldiers’: A Neo-Nazi Skinhead Gang Terrorized Dallas in the Late 1980s
“The racist white nationalist movement has deep roots. Some run directly back to Dallas and the violent Confederate Hammerskins.”
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‘The City Just Lied’: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Massacre
One hundred years later, journalists look back on the massacre of “Black Wall Street.”
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‘I’ve Lost Everything to the Beast’
“Formed in Los Angeles by refugees fleeing US-backed violence in El Salvador, MS-13 has wreaked havoc in Central America.”
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“Somebody’s Gotta Help Me”
“But abuse by law enforcement inside jails remains largely out of sight and harder to document.” Phillip Garcia was in psychiatric crisis. In jail and in the hospital, guards responded with violent force and restrained him for almost 20 hours, until he died.
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“We Are Not Lost Causes”
How youth in Rochester, New York, are working to save their neighborhood — and themselves — by forging pathways away from violent street crime.
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This Month In Books: ‘Look at the World, and Not at the Mirror.’
This month’s books newsletter is about seeing the big picture.
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‘People Outside This Community Know About Us Because of One Moment in Time.’
The community of Columbine has rebuilt and redefined itself over the past 20 years since the high school massacre.