CARLOS, PRIETO, AND RAMIRO COME TO HOE THE MILPA
By Levi Romero
“Hay más tiempo que vida, my cousin would often say.
And maybe he was right, although sometimes I have a hard time
Grasping what he meant, there is more time than life.”
SOY MAGDELENA… Y HE PECADO
By Diana Velazco
“Represento a toda mujer
Que en el mundo se le ha juzgado;
Por prejuicios o por genero,
Por machismo o egoismo.”
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY: JAZZ AND DEMOCRACY
By Andy Kingston
“The irony was not lost on many artists that a nation struggling with racial segregation at home should turn to those denied full participation in American democracy as ambassadors of American ideals abroad.”
IDA B. WELLS: THE POWER OF THE PEN
By Ina Jane
“Today, the legacy of her work continues as countries all over the world chant the words, ‘Black Lives Matter!’”
COMMUNITY VISIONS — CINEMATIC NARRATIVES BY WOMEN
By Ariel Dougherty
“In intervening decades too few opportunities in the U.S. have existed for women to gain support for narrative filmmaking.”
SUFRAGISTA Y MÁS: ADELINA “NINA” OTERO-WARREN
By Dr. Anna M. Nogar
“Nuevomexicana Adelina ‘Nina’ Otero-Warren (1881-1965) is one of the outstanding early feminist figures in United States history and an actor for representation and democracy in early 20th century New Mexico.”
ENCOUNTERING NEW MEXICO
By Darryl Wellington
“I was aware that New Mexico was heavily Indigenous and Hispanic. It did not lack people of color. But I soon learned I was not completely mistaken in immediately worrying how race was constructed here, in terms of post-colonial oppression, and whether the absence of blackness might mean the preeminence of whiteness.”
THE LAST MLK DAY
By Hakim Bellamy
“Dr. King gets significant and deserved credit for being one of the greatest orators of the 20th century, however he never gets his just due as a poet.”
INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE: A BRIEF LOOK AT PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES
By Matthew Contos
“From the daguerreotype to satellite imaging, photography has stood the test of time to emerge as one of the most fundamental technologies in history.”
A SWEET AND SPICY MEMORY: BISCOCHITOS IN NEW MEXICO CULTURE
By Vanessa Baca
“Biscochitos have a far deeper significance than being just sweet treats. They represent family roots. It is the rare Hispanic New Mexico family that does not have its own recipe for biscochitos.”