Nuestra Palabra: Latinos Having Their Say

Some histories survive because communities refuse to let them disappear.

At Houston Text Fest, More MAS: Defying AZ’s & TX’s Bans of Mexican American Studies brought together Tony Díaz @librotraficante, Lupe Méndez @thepoetmendez, Dr. Nolan Cabrera @chicanstocracy_blog, Liana Lopez @lianalisa_ on, Bryan Parras @hightechaztec, Houston Poet Laureate Reyes Ramirez @nisabes, and Texas State Representative Christina Morales @repmorales145

The panel revisited the banning of Mexican American Studies in Arizona, the Librotraficante Caravan that carried banned books back to Tucson, the research that helped challenge the discriminatory ban, and the continuing fight for Mexican American Studies in Texas.

Thank you to our panelists and everyone who joined us for this important conversation about education, community organizing, and the right to know our own history.

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