Skip to content

Examining New Mexico’s Complicated Colonial History

Statue of Oñate lying on the ground.

July 9, 2021 – Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez is a New Mexico native and an assistant professor at Arizona State University. She is also co-editor of the book “Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland.” As a Chicana who is critical of monuments to Spanish conquistadors, she has also worked on a decolonial bibliography of controversial conqueror…

Read More

Black Lives Matter and the Power of Peaceful Protests

A group of demonstrators give speeches and hold signs in front of the Albuquerque Police Department during the day.

July 9, 2021 – Santa Fe’s Rachel Kleinfeld is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the founder of The Truman Security Project. She’s also a member on the National Task Force on Election Crises. We talked to Kleinfeld last October about her research and work on reducing the possibility of violence…

Read More
New Mexico in Focus is on hiatus as our team gears up for coverage of the general election; we'll be back with all new journalism in October.