By Jordan Chin/El Inde The single square-mile “Pueblo within a City” is best known for its Mexican restaurants and its population living below poverty. For forty years, a soup kitchen called Casa Maria has been helping out homeless communities. Its hardest-working volunteer, Glenda Avalos, who is also part of the Barrio Neighborhood Coalition, is working…
Tatyana Johnson, El Inde Arizona A group of professors has teamed up with the University of Arizona libraries and several community organizations to create the new Border Hub, a website devoted to photographic and newspaper archives from the U.S./Mexico border. The site, projected to change over time, includes sources from “la frontera,” the American and…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Last week, Phoenix’s third-largest school district issued a statement in support of transgender youth across the state, denouncing recently passed legislation that targets trans student athletes. The governing board of Phoenix Union High School District unanimously approved a resolution opposing Senate Bill 1165, which bars trans girls and women…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Khalil Rushdan knows firsthand what a prison looks like during an execution. In 1997, he was hard at work in the kitchen of an Arizona prison the day it happened. “That day was the only day that it was silent. Everybody in that yard knew what…
By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Odelia Jose should be enjoying her retirement surrounded by family. Instead, the 58-year-old member of the Gila River tribe is in a state of constant grief after losing two of her three children to violence — a tragically common story among indigenous people in Arizona, which…
