Barbara Belejack
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A Lesson in Equal Protection
Early in the morning one long ago September, Laura Alvarez was awakened, bundled up, and piled into the family station wagon with her brothers [...] Full Story -
One Year Bolder
They took to the streets by the tens of thousands last spring, some walking out of schools or off their jobs, to protest draconian [...] Full Story -
Las Americas
Amid all the shoving, shouting, and whistling, and despite the banner proclaiming him a traitor to the Republic, on the morning of December 1, [...] Full Story -
Dateline
On the morning of July 7, about a dozen protestors carrying American flags and wearing “Save Our Border” buttons gathered in a corner of [...] Full Story -
All the Children Left Behind
Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother Sonia Nazario’s brave and brilliant first book is a coming-of-age [...] Full Story
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Texas Writers Observed
DAO STROM If you look at her website, you will find two bios for Dao Strom. There is Dao Strom the writer, author of [...] Full Story -
Bridegrooms Past and Present
Bridegrooms Past and Present mong the most provocative articles to ever appear in the Observer was Larry McMurtry’s “Ever a Bridegroom: Reflections on the [...] Full Story -
Border Brujo
Just Talk BY STEVE SATTERWHITE LIF is an indispensable talk-radio resource in Dallas. Every day it makes the world a little smarter and much [...] Full Story -
Las Americas
The War Room Goes to La Paz BY BARBARA BELEJACK n The War Room, the documentary by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus that follows [...] Full Story -
Cielito Lindo
Cielito Lindo BY BARBARA BELEJACK The Skin of the Sky By Elena Poniatowska Farrar, Straus & Giroux 336 pages, $25. amá, does the world [...] Full Story