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In the early 1990s, growing numbers of women were reported missing or found dead across the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Decades later advocates have documented more than 2,000 women were murdered yet none of their killers have been identified or convicted, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Esther Chavez Cano in front of the women's shelter she founded. (Courtesy Photo) One woman dedicated her life to telling the stories of those women, turning over her collection of documents to the Rio Grande Historical Collections at New Mexico State Uni...

Editor's note: This is from The Open Stacks, a blog curated by the NMSU Library Archives and Special Collections. Blog posts from The Open Stacks will be printed in the Sun-News monthly. Visit https://openstacks.nmsu.edu/ to learn more about the history of the Mesilla Valley. The New Mexico State University Archives and Special Collections (ASC) has many interesting historical collections, but the Loretto Academy holding is a gem that catches people’s attention whenever we have a public display of our archival holdings. A woman attending the 2019 Border Regional Archives Group Border Arc...

In the early 1990s, growing numbers of women were reported missing or found dead across the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Decades later advocates have documented more than 2,000 women were murdered yet none of their killers have been identified or convicted, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Esther Chavez Cano in front of the women's shelter she founded. (Courtesy Photo) Newspaper clippings from the Esther Chavez Cano Collection housed inside the Rio Grande Historical Collections at New Mexico State University’s Li...

In the early 1990s, growing numbers of women were reported missing or found dead across the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Decades later advocates have

Feb 16, 2021 / 06:27 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — In a letter released Tuesday, dozens of anonymous Newfields staff members asked for the museum’s president to step down after Newfields’ response to a job posting that cited its “traditional, core, white art audience.” The letter, attributed to a group of 85 Newfields staff and stakeholders, said staff are “disheartened” by the museum’s lack of leadership in addressing racial equity, calling the posting and the museum’s response to uproar about it “a symptom of a much larger problem.” The letter goes on to say that while ...