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Eighty-four years ago this week, this Mexican American labor organizer led one of the largest strikes in Texas history and was arrested and blacklisted for her trouble. ....
Published: June 30, 2021 Artist and fashion designer Agosto Cuellar recalls growing up on San Antonio’s West Side in a home that was often packed with family eating and playing together, noise and vibrant conversation a constant. Out-side, the vivid sights and sounds of the historic neighborhood shaped his view of the world and have continued to influence his work, including his latest collection, Barrio Folk Baroque, which showed in New York and Paris. “I lived in the projects and remember it as my formative years,” Agosto says. “As a kid, I was enthralled by the vatos with their tattoos and wife beaters and the girls, all chola, with their heavy makeup, sitting on the hoods of cars playing `70s music. It was a village of all people of color. Don’t get me wrong, there was a lot of gang violence and families fighting with each other, but it was a much simpler time… Sometimes it’s very subtle, but (the West Side) is always present in the work I create.” ....
Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 13.02 EDT Resting on gingham cloth, a sugar-crusted apple pie cools on the window sill of a midwestern farmhouse. Nothing could be more American. Officially American. The Department of Defense once featured the pie in an online collection of American symbols, alongside Uncle Sam and cowboys. Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in central Asia, making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with Spanish colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people. ....