Rebecca Flores might have retired from the state leadership of the United Farm Workers, but there's still lots of activism to do, protecting sunflowers and Brackenridge Park among them.

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‘That was my education:’ Union leader Rebecca Flores, ex-child farm worker, honored in Labor Plaza

Ayala: Unions have a lot to celebrate — without them, we’d be much worse off

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Close confidant and former son-in-law to César Chávez joins metro columnist Elaine Ayala to discuss the past, present and future of the farmworkers movement.

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Ayala: It's time we know what FBI, CIA gathered from Chicano civil rights surveillance

Biden's re-election campaign picks César Chávez's granddaughter to lead 2024 campaign: Ayala

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In this “Nosotros” episode, Elaine talks with Sarah Gould of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, an entity launched during the pandemic but closing in on its fifth anniversary with exciting news.

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Historian hopes to put San Antonio in national spotlight for Mexican American civil rights progress

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University Health CEO George Hernandez, who’ll retire this year, looks back to the beginning of a now-sprawling public health system.

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University Health to buy 68 acres on South Side for future hospital

University Health won’t step in to save Texas Vista hospital; it’s working to place its patients.

University Health maxes out tax relief for Bexar County homeowners

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A veteran of San Antonio peace initiatives and interfaith dialogue, the Rev. Ann Helmke sees through another blessing of the city’s peacemakers.

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Ayala: San Antonio blessed with a peace laureate that feeds the hungry

Ayala: San Antonio becomes first city to develop ‘compassionistas’

'In the city for God'

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Author, filmmaker and the first Latinx Rhodes Scholar, John Phillip Santos is now helping UTSA build a new school of borderland studies. It’s about time.

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UTSA creates new program, bringing disciplines together to study borderlands

Sandra Cisneros’ ‘House on Mango Street’ joins list of global classics

San Antonio will represent at the Texas Medal of Arts awards

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Christopher Carmona, visiting professor of Mexican American Studies and English at Our Lady of the Lake University, explores the movement of young Chicano academics who’ve brought to light the state-sanctioned violence by Texas Rangers against Mexican American and Tejano landowners. It happened at the turn of the 20th century. That gave birth to the Refusing to Forget research project and a landmark exhibition, “Life and Death on the Border,” on view through March at the OLLU library.

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Refusing to Forget project: _https://refusingtoforget.org/_

Ayala: ‘Refusing to Forget’ comes to OLLU with a powerhouse exhibit on border violence: _https://www.expressnews.com/columnist/elaine-ayala/article/powerful-exhibit-refusing-forget-comes-san-18480048.php_

Exhibit explores Texas Rangers’ violence in Hispanic S. Texas: _https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/elaine_ayala/article/Exhibit-explores-Texas-Rangers-violence-in-6796980.php_

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Throughout its half-century, the Intercultural Development Research Association has worked to one end – making equal educational opportunity a reality. In this episode of “Nosotros,” IDRA president and CEO Celina Moreno says that fight is far from over.

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Ernie Zuniga used to get up at 2:30 a.m. every morning to anchor FOX News First, a morning TV show he helped create. In May, he signed off and walked away from that show of his own accord. We catch up on the reasons for his departure and what he’s up to now on the latest episode of ¡Nosotros!.

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Remember former Councilman Roberto Treviño? He has reinvented himself as executive director of the San Antonio Philharmonic. And it sounds good.

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S.A. Phil’s bold move is paying off

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