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Whose Sedona Is It, Anyway?
The Arizona City—Long Defined by Visitors and Outsiders—Is Fighting Over the ‘Right Kind’ of Tourist
You’d think that a town dependent on tourist dollars could never stop advertising itself. But in Sedona, Arizona, as wealthy residents’ weariness of riffraff jamming up their roads sparked a …
What Does Brown Mean?
In a World That Often Feels Black and White, I’ve Learned to Embrace My Space in the Middle
Zócalo is celebrating its 20th birthday this year! As part of the festivities, we’re publishing reflections and responses that revisit and reimagine some of …
My Boss Owes Me Over $12,000
A Bay Area Restaurant Worker Recounts His Fight Against Wage Theft
This piece was published alongside the Zócalo/Irvine Foundation program “How Can Workers Make Sure They’re Treated Fairly in the Workplace?” Read the Takeaway of …
What L.A. and Belfast Have in Common
Should Two Famously Divided Cities Forget or Remember the Past to Move Forward in the Present?
To govern a divided city, you need to balance your remembering with some forgetting.
That was my takeaway after moderating a recent public event that used Zoom to link live audiences …
In San Antonio, Remembering More Than the Alamo
Innovators Are Using Digital Tools to Tell Stories of the City’s Black and Latinx History
In San Antonio, Texas, one memorial—the church-turned-fort-turned-shrine of the Alamo—dominates the landscape. At the Alamo, the artifacts, images, and captions on display tell a unified story: That martyrs died there …
