By Alberto Quiroz/Arizona Sonora News When they finish high school, some students go on to college while others enter the workforce. A select few, enlist into the Armed Services. Jose Alberto Ureña was one of those select few. “I scored high enough to join the Air Force, but they never got back to me,” Ureña…
For years, the East Valley branch of the NAACP fought to remove Confederate monuments throughout the state. Nothing happened. Fueled by momentum after the August 2017 Charlottesville riots and the toppling of many Confederate monuments throughout the South, East Valley NAACP president Roy M. Tatem, Jr. was hopeful that change would finally be made. But…
PHOENIX — The Arizona State Legislature started this week with Gov. Doug Ducey’s State of the State address, followed by the reading of over 100 bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and then finally the unveiling of the executive budget for fiscal year 2019. Doug Says No to Drugs and Yes to…
Traducido por Javier Aispuro Un héroe militar. Un activista por igualdad de vivienda y discriminación laboral. Un hombre que luchó por los derechos civiles tan valientemente que ahora se considera que es el Martin Luther King Jr. de Arizona. Lincoln Ragsdale nació el 27 de julio de 1926, en Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sus padres, Hartwell y…
A military hero. An activist for equal housing and job discrimination. A man who fought for civil rights so valiantly he is now considered to be the Martin Luther King Jr. of Arizona. Lincoln Ragsdale was born July 27, 1926, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His parents, Hartwell and Onlia, were middle-class African-Americans who owned a…
