Last week I had the opportunity to visit with art and history students at Burbank High School, my alma mater, to discuss San Antonio labor leader Emma Tenayuca and the pecan shellers’ strike. When ...

When her father’s death forces Petra to leave school and shell pecans in a factory with her stepmother, Amá, the 13-year-old mourns her lost dreams of graduating and becoming a writer. In 1930s San ...

In today’s modern world, it is often difficult to believe the strides our society and economy have made in regard to worker’s rights, and although many of those hard-earned rights are under attack ...

Almost a century ago, labor activist Emma Tenayuca led Mexican American women in San Antonio’s legendary pecan shellers’ strike, facing down bosses, police, and the Klan. Today amid renewed nativist ...

A local author hopes her new book, a fictionalized story of the San Antonio pecan shellers strike, reaches school-aged children who might not otherwise know about the historic movement. Why it matters ...

San Antonio’s International Women’s Day March will take place Saturday, starting in downtown’s Travis Park, the first such gathering since October’s “Bans Off Our Bodies” rally protesting Texas’ ...