“I was shocked, because I often heard those kinds of comments when I was a kid growing up in Pacoima, California, where I was born and raised,” Rep. Tony Cárdenas said.
Accusations of racism at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have prompted a larger conversation about how elite cultural institutions can be uncomfortable spaces for people of color.
The Gresham House, center, sits relatively unscathed, surrounded by debris from the 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed at least 6,000. (AP Photo/Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word)