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By Elise Kaplan, Searchlight New Mexico It’s a Saturday afternoon in early September at the Eldorado Community Center and about 40 people have gathered to hear from a Santa Fe school board candidate.  “Unstoppable” by Sia blares over the sound system as Patricia Vigil-Stockton — a business owner, great-grandmother and Republican — strides to the […]

Black people 'are expected to be America’s moral conscience—and we are unceremoniously punished for it,' writes Dr. Bettina L. Love.

WWE star Big E shares an exciting update about Our Heroes Rock; the pilot episode has received a premiere date.

October 12, 2023 | A Las Cruces police officer faces a manslaughter charge for killing an unarmed Black man, allegedly over a stolen beer.

Author Michael Connelly spearheads drive to expand PEN America's work combatting school censorship together with other 23 authors.

First Amendment advocates are fighting the unprecedented and growing number of book bans across the nation.

One of Thomasina Brown’s favorite books is a memoir about a girl who deals with the grief of losing her father and struggles with her sexual identity.

It’s tempting to think of the so-called Kanawha Textbook Wars as a relic from the past, but this Banned Books Week, we should ask ourselves just how far we’ve come

Ignoring the advice of literary friends, bestselling children’s author Jerry Craft reads every email, every book review and every social media post about his work. Craft dutifully responds to each. After thousands of such interactions, the award-winning author — he won the prestigious Newberry Medal in 2020 — of the popular graphic novel “New Kid” […]

WASHINGTON — One of Thomasina Brown’s favorite books is a memoir about a girl who deals with the grief of losing her father and struggles with her sexual identity.