Stella M. Chávez
StellaChávezisKERA’seducation reporter/blogger. Her journalism roots run deep: She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years at The Dallas Morning News, where she covered education and won the Livingston Award for National Reporting, which is given annually to the best journalists across the country under age 35. The award-winning entry was “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a seven-partDMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a smallOaxacanvillage to Dallas. For the last two years, she worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,where she was part of the agency’s outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and ran the regional office’s social media efforts.
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Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, Arlington resident Olena Prokhorenko Ogiozee tried to convince her mom to leave. Like many Ukrainians, 68-year-old Nataliya Prokhorenko didn’t want to abandon her city or country. -
Carne y Arena is a virtual reality experience that drops participants in the desert, on a journey with Central American and Mexican migrants. The exhibit at Fair Park is the work of Academy Award winning director Alejándro G. Iñárritu.
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The Dallas Democrat has represented District 30 since 1993.
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Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.
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From a Honduran teen's journey to the U.S. to Gov. Greg Abbott's plans for a wall, here’s a rundown of border and immigration news from Texas and beyond.
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Dhaval Babu is one of many temporary visa workers who was unable to re-enter the U.S. during the pandemic because of a temporary travel ban. After nearly 15 months in India, he and his family are back in Texas, but their return has been bittersweet.
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The new policy comes after a recent report found Black and Latino residents in Dallas are more likely to be arrested for low-level offenses.
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The multilingual website and hotline are available in English, French, Arabic and Spanish and was launched by the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas.
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Texas farmers say this week's winter storm was unlike anything they've experienced before. The below-freezing temperatures as well as power and water outages have severely disrupted the country's food supply chain.
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The travel ban, which affected mostly Muslim-majority and African countries, faced several legal challenges and was eventually upheld by the Supreme Court.
