Latest by Russell Contreras
Published on September 17, 2020 - Page 18
HOUSTON — While researching U.S. Civil War history in South Texas, Roseann Bacha-Garza came across the Jacksons and the Webbers living along the Rio...
Published on February 22, 2020 - Page 12
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In 1959, Ronald Erwin McNair walked into a South Carolina library. The aspiring astronaut, 9, wanted to check out a calculus book...
Published on April 28, 2019 - Page 22
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The PBS documentary “KOREA: The Never-Ending War” examines the lasting social and political costs of the Korean War — a conflict...
Published on March 7, 2019 - Page 11
SANTA FE, N.M. — Dolores Huerta, the Mexican-American social activist who formed a farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, was honored by state...
Published on February 12, 2019 - Page 10
At the time Virginia’s future political leaders put on blackface in college for fun, Dan Aykroyd wore it too — in the hit 1983 comedy “Trading Places...
Published on January 6, 2019 - Page 29
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. —It’s approaching 9 p.m. and Art Laboe adjusts the microphone as Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” ends. “And now it’s time for...
Published on October 4, 2018 - Page 6
‘The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America” (Little, Brown and Co.), by Ben Bradlee Jr....
Published on December 20, 2017 - Page 16
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A transgender former intern to U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico denies writing a letter of apology after she was...
Published on December 10, 2017 - Page 32
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “Coco” is earning praise from Mexican-American audiences for its portrayal of Mexican culture and the holiday, “Day of the Dead...
Published on May 23, 2017 - Page 19
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A private jet once owned by Elvis Presley and featured on the National Geographic Channel is set to be auctioned after sitting on...