¡Nosotros! with Elaine Ayala San Antonio Express News

Fresh from winning a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her contributions to a landmark Washington Post investigation examining the AR-15 — “a lethal weapon with a singular hold on a polarized nation” — Silvia Foster-Frau stopped by our studio to talk with Elaine Ayala about the series that included revisiting an old story: the aftermath of the 2017 mass shooting at a Sutherland Springs church, which Foster-Frau covered for the Express-News.

Suggested reading:
Sutherland Springs three years later
Sutherland Springs, a tragedy without end
Silvia Foster-Frau joins Post’s national investigations team

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Tejano star Shelly Lares joins Elaine Ayala and talks about her childhood friend, Selena Quintanilla Perez, and sings a cappella.

Suggested reading:
Tejano star holds class, and John Leguizamo showed up
Tejano star leaves the stage
Wearing a mask, it's not political, Tejano stars says

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Rebecca Flores might have retired from the state leadership of the United Farm Workers, but there's still lots of activism to do, protecting sunflowers and Brackenridge Park among them.

Suggested reading:
‘That was my education:’ Union leader Rebecca Flores, ex-child farm worker, honored in Labor Plaza
Ayala: Unions have a lot to celebrate — without them, we’d be much worse off
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Close confidant and former son-in-law to César Chávez joins metro columnist Elaine Ayala to discuss the past, present and future of the farmworkers movement.

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Ayala: It's time we know what FBI, CIA gathered from Chicano civil rights surveillance
Biden's re-election campaign picks César Chávez's granddaughter to lead 2024 campaign: Ayala
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In this “Nosotros” episode, Elaine talks with Sarah Gould of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, an entity launched during the pandemic but closing in on its fifth anniversary with exciting news.

Suggested reading:
Historian hopes to put San Antonio in national spotlight for Mexican American civil rights progress
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University Health CEO George Hernandez, who’ll retire this year, looks back to the beginning of a now-sprawling public health system.

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University Health to buy 68 acres on South Side for future hospital
University Health won’t step in to save Texas Vista hospital; it’s working to place its patients.
University Health maxes out tax relief for Bexar County homeowners
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