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San Antonio’s winning SXSW technique: Hold the sizzle, go heavy on the humble

Written by Edmond Ortiz on Apr 17, 2018

San Antonio’s tech community came home from 2018 South by Southwest with more than 500 resumes after scaling back its high-tech sizzle and focusing on being inviting and neighborly. The previous two years, the city and the private sector host large-scale “activations” at Austin bars and inside the Austin Convention Center trade show.

Artist Pamela Taylor’s haunting portrait of a Syrian child refugee

Written by Jason Gil on Apr 11, 2018

To see and feel the anguish of a Syrian child refugee, look no further than the Portraits of Compassion exhibit on the walls of the banquet hall at San Antonio’s Trinity Baptist Church, on view until the end of April 2018. The painting, titled “...the least of these...,” is a hauntingly poignant portrait of a Syrian child. His eyes beseech us, in their sad determined gaze, to seek our humanity, wondering what went wrong.

Federal judge: Texas is violating national voter registration law

Written by CharlotteAnne Lucas on Apr 04, 2018

By Alexa Ura and Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune Handing the state another voting rights loss, a federal judge has sided with a civil rights group that claimed Texas violated federal law by failing to register residents to vote when they updated their drivers’ license information online.

Webcast: IDRA 2018 Bilingual Parent Institute

Written by CharlotteAnne Lucas on Apr 02, 2018

Join us for the webcast of Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) Annual La Semana del Niño Parent Institute on Friday, April 6, 2018.

SXSW: San Antonians take on cultural inclusion, unconscious bias and cities of the future

Written by Edmond Ortiz on Mar 29, 2018

Several San Antonians, past and present, helped lift the conversation at the 2018 South by Southwest festival, promoting cultural and professional diversity and exploring ways to effectively measure a city’s growth. Counteracting biases