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Serving Hispanic Students in Texas: How is higher education stepping up to the task?

Join us for a Texas Tribune event in Brownsville exploring what needs to happen to support Hispanic-serving institutions in our state.

The Texas Tribune

Former UT-Brownsville President Juliet García to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

García served as the president of the University of Texas at Brownsville until it merged with the University of Texas-Pan American to become the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is the first Mexican American woman to lead a college or university in the United States.

The Texas Tribune

Ford pledges to work with community near future factory

Ford Motor Co. officials are pledging to be good neighbors to those in rural west Tennessee who live near the automaker’s planned electric truck factory, a project expected to create thousands of jobs and change the face of the region

The Independent UK

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Housing costs skyrocket as SpaceX expands in Texas city

SpaceX plans to launch rockets near Brownsville, Texas, and send the first person to Mars from there. Seven years after breaking ground, residents say the only thing skyrocketing is housing prices.

WEKU

Ukraine's foreign fighters have little in common with those who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War

When an aging Abe Osheroff recalled why, as a 21-year-old kid from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood, he had volunteered to join the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he framed it as a personal, ethical decision.

The Conversation

Brownsville Cops Arrest Activist for Anti-SpaceX Graffiti, Mayor Posts Her Info on Facebook

Why did police show up in force to apprehend a local activist, and why is the city’s top elected posting her mugshot and job details on social media?

Texas Observer

‘A slap in the face’: pipeline violates civil rights, say New Yorkers

Residents have been protesting National Grid’s pipeline, which bypasses wealthier, whiter Brooklyn areas, since 2020

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The RGV Is at a Political Crossroads

A resurgent GOP makes 2022 a year of possibilities in a Democratic border stronghold.

Texas Observer

Editorial: One Giant mess: Brian Flores’ lawsuit makes damning claims about the NFL’s commitment to diversity

Born in Brooklyn to Honduran immigrant parents, raised in a Brownsville housing project, Brian Flores grew up rooting for the New York Giants. He was 5 when the boys in blue, coached by Bill Parcells, routed Dan Reeves’ Broncos 39-20 to win it all, and 9 when Parcells’ team beat…

Tribune News Service

Some asylum aspirants pin hopes on Trump-era policy

When the Biden administration extended a Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in Brownsville, Texas, it was barely noticed _ the latest step in a slow-moving rollout to make asylum hearings available

The Independent UK

Elon Musk Foundation Donates $2.5 Million To Texas Schools

Musk donated $2.4 million to the Brownsville Independent School District in Texas in 2021. Now his organization adds another $2.5 million for technology.

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