by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 25, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Cities have long been the place for good jobs. In San Antonio and other Southwestern cities, workers generally found work in a multiple of industries. For workers from nearby rural communities, San Antonio offered plentiful job opportunities to many with just a high...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 25, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Ana Fernandez paints about everyday life and the experiences of her neighbors in San Antonio. She is well known for her oil paintings of modest homes and neighborhood businesses. In 2018 Artpace funded her cover art watercolor titled “Kwik Mart.” Many of the homes she...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 19, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
On October 14, 1964, the Nobel Committee in Norway awarded Dr. Mar- tin Luther King the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 35, Dr. King was the youngest person to receive such prestigious recognition. Through- out his career as a civil rights leader, Dr. King credited Mahatma...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 19, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Armando Sanchez, a native of South San Antonio, grew up drawing and sketching and recalls that as a child in elementary school his teach- ers would ask him to use his artistic skills to help deco- rate the classroom for holi- day events such as Thanks- giving and...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 11, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
The heavy rainfall over the fall months of 2018 delayed conservation work on Miraflores, one of San Antonio’s most fabled gardens. The rain showers flooded the water table under the garden’s grounds and as a consequence water overflows and fills the low spots of the...
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