Latinx Studies Graduate Students

Submit To The NPR Student Podcast Challenge Here Submissions from teachers are open until March 31.

26 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism & Resistance A Children's Book List for Anti-Racist Activism

Mexico requests 'full investigation' after US tear-gas incident I'll be eager to hear the Trump administration's response, because at this point, the defense for the what transpired at the border needs work.

Hey friends, grad students, junior scholars ( at UT and across Texas)!

If you would like to support and endorse this letter to the Texas State Board of Education requesting that the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards regarding the history of slavery, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights era be rewritten to reflect current historical knowledge on these topics click the link to find the letter to sign. :)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pCYXZAvU6iAsAOM0L9fQ-xiaAD12j7KZK1XcBXEboBc/edit

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Teach the Truth -Letter to the Texas State Board of Education Dear Graduate Students, Two weeks ago, Drs. Daina Ramey Berry, Anthony Brown, Keffrelyn Brown, and Shirley Thompson (The University of Texas at Austin), wrote a letter to the Texas State Board of Education requesting that the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards regarding the hi...

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Feliz Dia los Mu***os! Honor the sacrifices of your ancestors! GET OUT THERE AND VOTE! Gracias Lalo Alcaraz

The Little-Known Underground Railroad That Ran South to Mexico The Underground Railroad ran south as well as north. For slaves in Texas, refuge in Canada must have seemed impossibly far away. Fortunately, slavery was also

Sam Z. Coronado Student Poster Art Scholarship Contest is open!

Scholarship awards will be granted—regardless of citizenship or documented status—in the amounts of:

$1000 for First Prize

$750 for Second Prize

$500 for Third Prize

Start designing! Deadline to submit is Oct. 26!

"Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century"

Dr. Tera W Hunter, Edwards Professor of History and Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, will examine the discriminatory legacy of black marriage, tracing back from centuries of slavery through to the twentieth century.

Thursday, October 18th at 5:30pm

Cuando el pasado se encuentra con el presente!

No se pierdan esta plática del Profesor Karl Jacoby, de Columbia University, sobre su libro “The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Billionaire.”

En estas pláticas estará uno de los descendientes de William Ellis, Chip Williams!

No te pierdas estás charlas en UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio el 10/22 y en Texas State University el 23 de Octubre!

Ahí nos vemos!
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Don't miss this talk by Professor Karl Jacoby on his book "The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Billionaire.”

This talk will be joined by one of William Ellis' descendants, Chip Williams!

Don't miss these talks, just down the road at on 10/22 and at Texas State, October 23!


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