Recording of a workshop at the South Dallas Cultural Center ...

Recording of a workshop at the South Dallas Cultural Center ...

Recording of the inauguration of new Dallas City Council members ...

Recording of a Dallas City Council meeting including discussions, votes, and other proceedings.

Recording of a Dallas City Council meeting including discussions, votes, and other proceedings.

Recording of a Dallas City Council meeting including discussions, votes, and other proceedings.

Recording of a Dallas City Council meeting including discussions, votes, and other proceedings.

Recording of the inauguration of new Dallas City Council members ...

Recording of the inauguration of new Dallas City Council members ...

Daniel Urbina Sanchez grew up between Lubbock, Texas and Garden City, Kansas. Starting in 1968, Sanchez’s family moved permanently to Lubbock. He graduated from Lubbock High School and Texas Tech University. In the 2000, Sanchez began participating in such organizations as Las Fiestas Del Llano, which is an organization focused on celebrating Mexican national holidays. He is currently an oral historian for Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection. At Texas Tech University, Sanchez became a leader of the Latino faculty and staff. Sanchez also founded Citizens United in Discourse Against Discrimination, CUIDAD, which led rallies within Lubbock and participated in protests in the Texas State Capitol as the legislature considered racists-anti immigration bills.

Gilbert A. Flores grew up in Slaton, Texas where he attended a segregated “Mexican School” and then a integrated school where he faced abuse and discrimination alongside other Mexican American children. Upon graduating from high school, he moved to Lubbock and began to work in various jobs until he opened up his own successful auto-parts store during the early 1970s. In 1993 he became the second Mexican American to be elected into the Lubbock County Commissioner’s Court.

Jon Holmes was born in Lubbock and grew up in a farm near the city while being educated in Lubbock’s school system. He graduated from Lubbock High School and later attended Texas Tech University. At Texas Tech, Holmes participated in the campus anti-Vietnam War Movement and in the underground student newspaper named The Catalyst. Because of his work, especially in pointing out racial discrimination in Lubbock within the The Catalyst, Holmes and his fellow student advocates faced police harassment and violence. Facing such oppression, he moved to New York where he began a successful writing career. He has published articles in numerous publications like the New York Times and has published two cultural history books.

Mr. Barrios was born and raised in Victoria, Texas. He started working for the local newspaper at the age of 16, writing book reviews. He was drafted into the military, trained as a medic and stationed in Austin, where he attended UT. He later became politicized and joined SDS, involved in anti-war activism. After graduating from college, he taught high school level English in San Antonio and later moved to Crystal City to support the 1969 walkout, eventually staying as a teacher. He wrote several plays that touched upon to Chicano/a identity and politics. Throughout the interview, Mr. Barrios discussed sexism in the Chicano movement, and the exclusion of LGBT Chicanos/as.

This is a wide-ranging interview by Mario Salas from his time as a child to his aspirations in the political arena

This video continues from the Day 2 Part 3 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Jasmine Spencer describes bird-talk in Dene stores. Siri Tuttle begins her discussion of vocables and vowel inventories in Lower Tanana Dene.

This video continues from the Day 2 Part 1 video of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. Sally Rice reports on the current state of the Pan-Athapaskan Comparative Lexicon (PACL).

Video recording from Day 2 of the 2017 Dene/Athabaskan Language Conference and Workshop. McKinley Alden describes the articulatory and acoustic phonetics of back consonants in Southern Haida.

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their A Tribute to Ruby Dee event in 2005. This video features a tribute to actress Ruby Dee during TBAAL's Juneteenth Film Festival. The video shows speakers and live musical and dance performance live on the Naomi Bruton Main Stage. This video is Part 2 of 2 of the event.

Gethrel Williams was from Beaumont, Texas. She was a long time civil rights and labor activist. During her time working for the U.S. Postal Service, she became a leader in in the American Postal Workers Union, both locally and nationally. In 2007, she was elected to the Beaumont City Council as Council-member-at-Large. In her interview, she discussed her efforts to desegregate public accommodations, her participation in the labor movement, and her work as a public, elected official. She died February 18, 2018.

Frank Gutierrez grew up in Lubbock, Texas and graduated from Lubbock High School. He then joined the military and served in Vietnam. Upon returning, he enrolled in Texas Tech University. He has served in various non-profits and a charter school. He has ran for various local political offices.

Billie Caviel was raised in East Texas, attending all African American Schools. She attended university and pharmacy school at Texas Southern University in Houston. Once graduating, Caviel and her husband, who was also a pharmacist, moved to Lubbock, Texas to work for a Jewish pharmacist because no one else would give them jobs in the state because they were African American. Caviel and her husband later founded their own pharmacy, which they kept open for forty-nine years. Caviel also served as a Lubbock ISD school board member for a number of years during the early 1990s.

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their A Tribute to Ruby Dee event in 2005. This video features a tribute to actress Ruby Dee during TBAAL's Juneteenth Film Festival. The video shows speakers and live musical and dance performance live on the Naomi Bruton Main Stage.

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the conclusion of the 4th annual Sankofa Café Bash "Wine, Watermelon, The Word" literary voices series performance. The spoken word event featured Dallas's best seller Emotion Brown along with soul and hip hop music.

Christy Martinez-Garcia was born and raised in Lubbock. She attended Lubbock High School, Lamar University, and completed her degree at Texas Tech University. After college, Martinez-Garcia worked for the Lubbock city government and then for the National Council of La Raza in Washington D.C. Upon her return to Lubbock, Martinez-Garcia sought to counter the local media narrative that mostly only depicted Hispanics as criminals or only immigrants. Thus, she founded the magazine, Latino Lubbock. She also ran for a position in the Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees. Martinez-Garcia has participated in numerous community organizations and was responsible for the naming of Cesar Chavez street in Lubbock as well as having a historical marker for a what once a migrant labor camp.