By Jesse Jones, City Desk ABQ in The Paper. — City officials took swift action Wednesday to initiate the renaming of local sites honoring civil rights organizer and Chicano icon César Chávez following disclosures by fellow activist Dolores Huerta that he pressured her for sex resulting in pregnancies. City Councilor Joaquín Baca told City Desk […]
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Council OK’s ordinance to thwart ICE arrests in Albuquerque
By Jesse Jones City Desk in The Paper. — The Albuquerque City Council meeting opened Monday to a packed chamber as officials took up several controversial measures. The crowd thinned as the agenda moved forward, but a large group of community activists and immigrants, many wearing bright blue shirts from El Centro de Igualdad y […]
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Photographer Nathaniel Paolinelli Captures the Humans Behind the Hydraulics in Seventh & Central: Lowriders
On Sundays in Albuquerque, engines idle low along Central Avenue. Families gather along the sidewalks as candy-painted Chevys glide past murals and storefronts. At Seventh Street and Central, a photographer found not only striking images, but a community that would reshape how he sees his hometown. For Nathaniel Tetsuro Paolinelli, the project that became Seventh […]