By Angel Gonzalez / El Inde On sunny Tucson days, Nelson Payne spends his time outside at one of Tucson Racquet and Fitness Club’s practice courts. Here you will find him giving tennis lessons, often to young developing athletes or hosting group classes for players of different experience levels. The 58-year-old experienced tennis player and…
By Sam Burdette / El Inde The afternoon of Feb. 28, Gene C. Reid Park’s Barnum Hill wasn’t the serene, tree-shaded grassy area it usually is. There were no families toting old bread for the ducks as they walked alongside the south pond’s rocky border, and there were no picnics on the gently sloping hill,…
By Joseph Klein / El Inde More than half a million people play high school basketball in the United States. Many of those kids have dreams of being a collegiate athlete at a Division One school. Yet only one percent of those students actually get to achieve their dream. Back in 2017, one of those…
By Sunday Joyahnah Holland / El Inde When a migrant leaves their home country to pursue the “American dream” and doesn’t call to check in by the next week or so — their moms and their spouses and their siblings and their children and their friends start to get worried. And when they don’t get…
By Sophie Wells / El Inde A thick, white fog rolls over the single-runway of the Friedman Memorial Airport thirteen miles south of Sun Valley, Idaho. Being on one of the last flights given permission to land in late-December weather conditions, I stepped off the plane in awe of the peaceful, mountainous landscape surrounding me. After…
