Town Square
“Talk of the Town”: Ageism, National Identity, Cultural Appropriation, and More; Plus, “Haunted Mansion” Director Justin Simien
Posted on · Our panel of guests share their thoughts on trending topics in the news.
Tag: El Librotraficante
Town Square
Talk of the Town: The Supreme Court Rulings on First Amendment Rights & Student Loans
Posted on · Our panel weighs in on the recent SCOTUS rulings and the impact these decisions could have on Americans.
DiverseCity
Show Us Your DiverseCity | Tony Diaz – Writer, Activist, Professor
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Houston Matters
Educators and Activists Discuss Banned Books Week
Posted on · This week (Sept. 25 — Oct. 1, 2016) is Banned Books Week, celebrating intellectual freedom and the freedom to read in the United States. In her web series Writing the City, Houston Public Media's Dacia Clay is highlighting the event all this week with interviews with educators and activists. That included a conversation with James […]
Literature
Banned Books Week: Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante
Posted on · Love may be a battlefield, but schools are the theaters of war when it comes to intellectual freedom.
Good, Bad and Ugly
Loosening Voter ID Restrictions and An Early Endorsement: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of the News
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week's news, we turn to our rotating panel of "non-experts" to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. This week, our panel debates: the […]