The El Paso community joined Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso in a student-led candlelight vigil last Thursday evening (June 25th) to mark the one-month anniversary of George Floyd‘s death in Minneapolis and as a symbol of solidarity and future change. The TTUHSC El Paso campus was decorated with gold luminarias and red […]Read More
As the one-month anniversary of George Floyd‘s senseless death in Minneapolis approaches, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso students invite the El Paso community to join in a student-led candlelight vigil to be held this week. The vigil, scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, June 25, will be held in remembrance of those who’ve been […]Read More
Setting the pace for Fort Worth’s Juneteenth caravan on Friday is 93-year-old Opal Lee. The activist and educator will lead her community on foot for two and a half miles — a distance that represents the number of additional years it took before enslaved people in Texas were informed of their freedom after the signing of […]Read More
Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to Houston on Monday to attend the public visitation of George Floyd, a black man who was killed recently in Minneapolis police custody. Abbott told reporters afterward that Floyd’s death was “the most horrific tragedy I’ve ever personally observed” and that he was heading to meet with Floyd’s family privately. Floyd, […]Read More
At the request of Mayor Dee Margo, Interstate 10 and ONE San Jacinto will be lit crimson and gold on Monday night, June 8, in remembrance of George Floyd. “Tonight, June 8, 2020, El Paso will be lit in crimson and gold in honor of George Floyd,” said Mayor Dee Margo. “These lights will shine […]Read More
On Wednesday, June 3, Bishop Mark Seitz received a personal call from the Holy Father, Pope Francis, thanking Bishop Seitz for his prayerful response to the protests and the injustices of racial prejudices in the United States. “I expressed to the Holy Father that I felt it was imperative to show our solidarity to those […]Read More
El Paso Independent School District Superintendent Juan Cabrera released a statement regarding the death of George Floyd. The El Paso Independent School District condemns the murder of Mr. George Floyd last week in Minneapolis and joins the millions of Americans who call for a speedy and full investigation into the action that lead to his […]Read More
With protests underway across the country, El Pasoans joined the chorus of citizens decrying the death of George Floyd nearly a week ago. With an organized march starting at Memorial Park, pausing at the El Paso Police Department’s headquarters at Montana Avenue and North Raynor, and back to Memorial Park, scores of residents chanted, held […]Read More
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