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Farmworker rights advocate Genoveva Puga’s legacy of heart and courage: workers compensation for agricultural workers
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Exclusion declared unconstitutional under the Texas Equal Rights Amendment
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Meet Wanda Garner Cash, author of Pancho Villa’s Saddle at the Cadillac Bar; Thurs., Dec. 10, Laredo Center for the Arts
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Native Laredoan: a gifted wordsmith
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The Río Mio Project: virtual homage to the Rio Grande – LAST DAY TO BID
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River-themed art by 50 local and regional artists also on view at the Laredo Center for the Arts
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Cuentos de la Sierra: La Aguililla
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But when I set the hawk down on the roof of my house, it wouldn’t move. That’s when I realized that it was hurt. Its right wing just hung there, limp and useless.
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Virtual screening of Episode 5 of Immigration Nation set for Aug. 28
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An urgent, unbiased portrait of a country in crisis
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Laredo Film Society, Immigrant Alliance to screen Immigration Nation on Aug. 7
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Zoom screening set for 7 p.m.
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The Flood of 1932: Through an unlikely combination of unique events, one of the most important artists of the 20th century and billions of cubic yards of muddy water were hurtling toward the same narrow pass
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From the catastrophic mess our two separated and increasingly walled-off Laredos are struggling to survive in 2020, we look back to Labor Day Weekend 1932 with bitter nostalgia.
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Lockdown in Florence: Laredoan Gilda Valdez Carbonaro cooks as she copes with the coronavirus; an interview by wordsmith Wanda Garner Cash
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“Being in lockdown here in Florence, gave me a lot of time to reflect on things I have left unfinished in my life.”
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Review: Gilda Valdez Carbonaro, A Tiny Kitchen in Florence: Coping by cooking during the 2020 Pandemic
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I recommend it to you with a hearty appetite.
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Heritage Foundation presents online screening of Children of the Inquisition June 23-24; panel discussion June 24
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A reconsideration of history and identity