Elaine Ayala

United Farm Workers to all of us: Be grateful for abundance we have, while we still have it.

Artist, writer, photographer Jorge Sandoval led a big, colorful life, traveling the globe on a dime.

NIMBY kills an affordable housing project in Marc Whyte's Northeast San Antonio district.

The nation's first Mexican American civil rights museum will be in San Antonio and appropriately on the West Side.

San Antonio feminist film festival covers every major 2024 mark, from misogyny to abortion rights.

'We're desperate:' AC failure closes Mexican Cultural Institute at San Antonio's Hemisfair

Texas Latino voters are primed for November, expert says

New Census Bureau figures won’t quell the unfounded fears of white supremacists and Christian nationalists about the perceived threats of growing minority groups. Think of the chants that rang out during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. White young men carrying Confederate and Nazi flags chanted, “You will not replace us.” Think of the members of a hate group that marched in Nashville earlier this month, faces covered, carrying shields and Confederate flags. ELAINE AYALA:…

It was a week of ironies. As the country took a holiday to celebrate its independence from Great Britain — when it fought a war against a king’s power to dictate its future — the U.S. Supreme Court announced a ruling that makes presidents a bit more like that king. ELAINE AYALA: Catch up with Elaine’s ‘Nosotros’ postcast on YouTube Monday’s decision gives presidents unprecedented immunity against criminal prosecution for official acts while in office. This is at a time when a former president, D…

You know her as the firebrand who won’t mince a word about the fascist tendencies at work in today’s electorate, who doesn’t shy from exposing the blatant lies told and taught about the Battle of the Alamo, which she sees as a symbol of slavery and white supremacy. She’s a San Antonio political activist whose contributions stretch back to La Raza Unida third party in Texas, which mounted successful campaigns throughout South Texas, and the Chicano civil rights movement. That work spilled over in…