Kristen Cabrera | Texas Standard
Production Assistant and ReporterKristen Cabrera is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, where she saw snow for the first time and walked a mile through a blizzard. A native of the Rio Grande Valley, she graduated from the University of Texas-Pan American (now UTRGV) and is a former KUT News intern. She has been working as a freelance audio producer, writer and podcaster. Email her: kcabrera@kut.org
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"No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston" was originally published in 1997 and then went out of print. It's now back on shelves with an update to Stearns' story. -
"A lot of the jump scares is the reality of the atrocities that have existed and that have happened. They're super grounded in reality, and I think that's what's scariest," says the McAllen native.
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Natalicio served as University of Texas at El Paso's president for 31 years, and fought to build a university that reflected its local community.
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Former party official Wayne Thorburn says Republicans' move to become a majority party in the state began in the 1950s.
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As of this writing, there are four lawsuits in federal court and one in state court.
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The company, owned by Tesla founder Elon Musk, has blocked locals' access to Boca Chica Beach during its rocket tests.
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Sister Norma Pimentel says the number of migrants has overwhelmed her organization. She says the Biden administration should do more to process new arrivals in a safe, orderly way.
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Author Jennifer Koshatka Seman says curanderos Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo weren’t merely the “curiosities” that folklore has made them out to be.
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For those looking to enter the market, one expert says higher prices “are here to stay.”
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Texas surface streets can actually absorb a lot more traffic than we think.
