Russell Contreras

This undated photo provided by Panda Bear Films/Latino Public Broadcasting shows Latino construction worker stands outside a Dallas construction site. “Building the American Dream,” a new VOCES/PBS documentary scheduled to air on most PBS stations on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, examines the effects of this construction boom in the American Southwest on Latino workers by telling the stories of those erecting buildings in Texas. (Moyo Oyelola/Panda Bear Films/Latino Public Broadcasting via AP)

New PBS film probes construction boom on Latino workers

September 13, 2020 at 10:45 a.m.

Since the Great Recession, cities like Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, and Hobbs, New Mexico, have seen construction booms. Homes and skyscrapers have popped up almost overnight thanks to cheap labor Latino...

Volunteers paint murals on boarded-up businesses in Kenosha, Wis., on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. The event was meant to gather donations for Kenosha residents and help businesses hurt by violent protests that sparked fires across the city following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Ailing Kenosha on edge as Trump visit looms amid tensions

August 31, 2020 at 9:13 a.m.

Some residents in Kenosha fear a planned visit by President Donald Trump after unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake may stir more emotions and cause more violence and...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead off the final lap to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala., as thousands of civil rights marchers joined in the walk to demand voter registration rights for blacks on March 25, 1965. (Associated Press file)

Selma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus

March 29, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

The interactive website arrives just as schools across the U.S. have closed because of the coronavirus and many students are in need of educational material to learn at home.

Jackson Wink MMA Academy to offer fans “travel workouts”

December 25, 2019 at 4:37 p.m.

Jackson Wink MMA Academy, the storied mixed martial arts gym that has trained UFC light heavyweight champion Jon 鈥淏ones鈥� Jones, will beginning offering mixed martial arts fans a chance to...

Mass shootings have Latinos worried about being targets

August 11, 2019 at 5:09 p.m.

That shooting and an earlier one in Gilroy, California, killed nearly two dozen Latinos. The violence has some Hispanics looking over their shoulders, avoiding speaking Spanish in public and seeking...

High-tech tools help with 2020 census in remote places

June 23, 2019 at 5:16 p.m.

The U.S. Census Bureau is using new high-tech tools to help get an accurate population count next year as its faces challenges tallying people of color who live in remote...

Historic Andy Ruiz boxing win jolts elation among Mexican Americans

June 5, 2019 at 10:09 a.m.

The Madison Square Garden crowd booed when giant screens showed the chubby challenger, Andy Ruiz Jr., walking to the ring as a big underdog to the charismatic, handsome heavyweight champion,...

Drone used to aid 3-D remake of Camp Amache, WWII Japanese internment camp in southern Colorado

April 30, 2019 at 12:56 p.m.

A University of Denver team is using drone images to create a 3D reconstruction of a World War II-era Japanese internment camp in southern Colorado.

Blackface, other insensitivities ran rampant in 鈥�80s culture

February 10, 2019 at 11:07 a.m.

At the time Virginia's future political leaders put on blackface in college for fun, Dan Aykroyd wore it too -- in the hit 1983 comedy "Trading Places."

Then-University of New Mexico athletics ...

Ex-University of New Mexico athletic director charged with fraud, laundering

February 6, 2019 at 3:13 p.m.

Former University of New Mexico athletic director Paul Krebs, who left in 2017 amid questions over spending, was charged Wednesday with fraud, money laundering and other felonies, state prosecutors said.

抖阴ap