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People who know their history are harder to erase. These are the pieces our newsroom has printed on the histories left out of Texas classrooms, deportation raids, stolen land, English-only punishment, Indigenous truth and the barrio memories that raised us.
More than 1.2 million people, including U.S. citizens, removed in a single year, and the raids our families still remember.
Tejano families killed by Texas Rangers, the land taken, the names left out of the textbooks.
In 1973 Texas children were still punished for speaking Spanish. That is our parents. Some of us.
Amonute, not a Disney princess. The Native warriors and curanderas history tried to forget.
Erased History
It was a typical morning. A young man carefully inspected the carrying case for his precious Misen Chef Knives before leaving for work. A woman placed her lunch in her handbag and checked to see if it was her. METROCARD was in…
By J. George Cisneros · Sep 10, 2026
Let's Talk About It
Let’s talk about colorism. Colorism is the idea that people can be treated differently based on the shade of their skin, even within the same family, culture, or racial group. We have heard phrases about staying out of the sun…
By Yvette Tello · Aug 20, 2026 · 11 community replies
Let's Talk About It
Were you ever taught about La Matanza, the lynching of Mexicans and Tejanos, segregated schools, “Whites Only” public facilities, or the role the Texas Rangers played in violence against Mexican American communities? Or did you…
By Yvette Tello · Aug 6, 2026 · 25 community replies
Erased History
For generations, the killings of Mexicans, Tejanos and Mexican Americans were largely left out of traditional accounts of Texas history. Students learned about famous battles, cattle drives, political leaders and the growth of…
By Yvette Tello · Aug 6, 2026
Let's Talk About It
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should still be alive. On July 7, 2026, the Houston father of three was driving a work crew when an ICE officer shot and killed him. Federal officials later acknowledged that Lorenzo was not the person…
By Yvette Tello · Jul 16, 2026 · 16 community replies
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Romana Acosta Bañuelos was deported as a child during the Great Depression, when the United States forced many families of Mexican descent out of the country, including people who were American citizens. She returned to the…
By Yvette Tello · Jun 18, 2026 · 15 community replies
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In 1954, the United States launched one of the most painful and shameful deportation campaigns in American history. It was called Operation Wetback, a name that alone shows the disrespect and racism Mexican people faced at the…
By Yvette Tello · Jun 18, 2026 · 11 community replies
Erased History
For generations, the story of Pocahontas has been told as a romantic tale. Many of us were raised with the image of a young Indigenous woman who willingly crossed cultures, fell in love with an Englishman, and became a symbol of…
By LPT staff · Jun 18, 2026
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Sergeant Billy Walks About exemplifies the extraordinary bravery of Native American warriors who have fought valiantly in every major American conflict. Their courage and sacrifice often remain unrecognized compared to their…
By Yvette Tello · May 28, 2026 · 15 community replies
Nuestra Cultura
This past weekend my attention was once again brought back to 1983. I read that the US Supreme Court nominee graduated from high school, a well-heeled prep school, in 1983. When images of him out of his high school yearbook…
By La Prensa Texas staff · May 8, 2026
Nuestra Cultura
I would like to share with you some of the slang Spanish words that I heard while growing up in the Barrio El Azteca in Laredo, Texas during the 1940s thru the 1960s. When I was growing up in the Barrio El Azteca, the second…
By J. Gilberto Quezada · Apr 23, 2026
Erased History
In 1973, in Texas, many children were still being punished for speaking Spanish in school.Let that sit with you. We’re not talking about the 1800s.We’re not talking about some distant era. We’re talking about our parents. Our…
By Yvette Tello · Feb 20, 2026 · 23 community replies
Erased History
This year is the 100th Anniversary of The Cristero War that started in 1926 under Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles, an atheist, when he enforced five articles in the 1917 Constitution that were anti-Catholic and…
By La Prensa Texas staff · Jan 15, 2026
Erased History
In its first year alone, Operation Wetback deported more than 1.2 million Mexicans, and some U.S. citizens. A year-by-year chronology from La Prensa Texas archives.
By Mario Longoria, Ph.D. · Compiled from our archives
Every edition since 1913 lives in our archives. Page 2 keeps the conversation going in Let's Talk About It.
