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San Antonio Mayor Jones urges residents worried about local ICE facility to go vote San Antonio City Council voted 9-2 on Thursday in favor of a proposal exploring ways to combat ICE. During a tense City Council meeting Thursday, Mayor

Her comments came during a tense Thursday meeting about what the city can do to stop a new immigrant detention center from opening on the East Side.

Dope talk with artist Francisco Delgado!

20 useless facts about San Antonio you can use to impress out-of-towners When playing tour guide for visiting friends and family, there's plenty of culture and history in San Antonio to draw from. But sometimes you want to take

Dazzle friends and family with your Alamo City expertise!

Thank you @sacurrent.bsky.social for allowing me to submit this piece!

Opinion: San Antonio residents should examine Hemisfair's history before voting on props A and B Memories of Hemisfair's destructive and debt-ridden past have faded, yet the city is again looking to the inner city to boost its economy.

Memories of Hemisfair’s destructive and debt-ridden past have faded, yet the city is again looking to the inner city to boost its economy.

Opinion: San Antonio residents should examine Hemisfair's history before voting on props A and B Memories of Hemisfair's destructive and debt-ridden past have faded, yet the city is again looking to the inner city to boost its economy.

Thank you @sacurrent.bsky.social for accepting my piece on HemisFair and Project Marvel.

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Los Angeles residents were outraged after dozens of federal agents marched through MacArthur Park, in one of the city’s most immigrant-heavy neighborhoods. Homeland Security officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. trib.al/JYW5IsU

YouTube video by EPCC TV Philosophic Dialogues from La Frontera 56: A Functioning Democracy

Thank you, Philosophic Dialogues from La Frontera and EPCC TV, for having a great discussion on Functioning Democracy.

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Tired.

A black cat in a little box, oil painting style

Love the box #morningstudy #cat #art
I know it's a really famous cat but I didn't note his name when I leaved Instagram o_o

Migrants passing through San Antonio react to Trump’s inauguration Asylum-seeking migrants at the San Antonio Catholic Charities MRC Centro de Bienvenida respond to Trump's mass deportation crackdown.

On Inauguration Day, as Donald Trump was being sworn in as the 47th president in a speech peppered with notions that America is in decline, the San Antonio Catholic Charities’ MRC Centro de Bienvenida, kept its doors open:

Forthcoming open access book from @ucpress.bsky.social:

Visions of Global Environmental Justice: Comunidades Negras and the War on Drugs in Colombia by Alexander Huezo

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On the Coronavirus, Loss, and My Mom’s Tacos My mom’s cooking offered comfort as my dad battled COVID-19.

“¡Hijo, ya está la comida!”

From the archives in 2021 by @obedmanuel.bsky.social: On a troubled New Years Eve, a family gathers around a favorite meal in search of a little comfort.

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In 1964, the San Antonio Urban Renewal Agency (URA) forced Wallace and Helen Ackman, owners of the Southwest Nipple Company, to sell their property to make room for the downtown HemisFair site.

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True story:

I went to SMU because I watched their 30 for 30 doc when applying to grad schools.

They let me in thanks to a Chicano professor from Long Beach.

I was unprepared for SMU and grad school. Nearly flunked out my 1st semester because I couldn’t write.

Thats how I started writing.

Book review: A scholarly book provides a new perspective on the roles of Alaska Natives in World War II Holly Miowak Guise’s book details that Alaska Natives, far from being passive participants in a war brought to them, actively protected their lands and cultures — leading to strengthened tribal connec...

Holly Miowak Guise’s book details that Alaska Natives, far from being passive participants in a war brought to them, actively protected their lands and cultures — leading to strengthened tribal connections and greater equality.

Fellowship Opportunity: Visiting Research Professor 2025-26 - Slavery North Applications are now open for the Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor Fellowship at Slavery North for 2025-26 academic year. Visiting (Open Rank) Research Professor APPLY NOW Job no: 525795 Work t...

If you're a professor working on slavery in Canada or the US North, please consider applying for this fellowship at UMass Amherst! I'm currently a fellow at this initiative and it's been wonderful. #slavery #academicsky

Texas Legislature shifts right: What that means for the LGBTQ community Last session, GOP lawmakers passed a drag bill, a ban on gender-affirming surgery and other legislation targeting the LGBTQ community. With the Republican Party growing more conservative, experts say…

Last session, GOP lawmakers passed a drag bill, a ban on gender-affirming surgery and other legislation targeting the LGBTQ community. With the Republican Party growing more conservative, experts say it’s likely the theme will continue.

Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock The fertilizer was promoted as an environmental win-win for years. An untold number of farmers and ranchers across Texas have spread it on their land.

Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock via @alereports.bsky.social

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Community college ‘deserts’ deter Texas students from getting a degree, report says Black and Hispanic high schoolers who have to drive more than 30 minutes to a community college are less likely to pursue a degree, the report found.

Distance from a community college is a key factor for students when deciding what to do after high school — and can lead them to leave their hometowns for college or not to pursue a degree at all, a recent study found.

Digital Humanities Interview Series: Holly Miowak Guise What inspires your work in digital humanities? I believe that if Indigenous Alaskan elders consent for their stories to be told in the digital format, that we should amplify their voices for audien…

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My Digital Humanities interview with the Immigration and Ethnic History Society posted today!
I talk about about Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from WWII, collaborations on documentary films with Alaskan Films & the Alaska Humanities Forum
@uwapress.bsky.social

I published a compilation of comics I posted to social media from 2020 to 2024! 322 pages of pandemic, thoughts about history and museums, mental health, and finally, quitting my job to move back home. Now available in my Etsy store! #bsnm

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***Job Opportunity***

Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Center and Associate Professor/Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Virginia

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Tenure-track job postings in History or History-related fields, November 2024

A thread.

(I will add more postings over the course of the month)

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In the Shadow of the Law: The Hanigan Case and the Genesis of the Immigrant Rights Movement One August afternoon in 1976, a group of men building a fence on a family ranch in Agua Prieta, Mexico, looked up to see a young man limping toward them. N

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My JAH article on how anti-immigrant violence in the borderlands contributed to the human rights movement: the Hanigan case shows us the ways undocumented people and their advocates have defended migrants’ human and civil rights in the face of unspeakable violence

Urban History folks! I'm helping a filmmaker with a documentary about Urban renewal in White Plains. She asked for examples of churches sponsoring housing projects in UR areas. I know of one in Newburgh and Black and Puerto Rican groups in Rochester, but would love to learn about others. Thanks

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

I am happy to announce the release of my new scholarly journal article!

It draws from my work on the history of the Unión Nacional Sinarquista in the United States.

Congratulations, Nathan. 🎉@nellstra.bsky.social‬. So excited to read this.