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Access To Education And Affordable Housing (Panel Discussion), Serge A. Martinez, Deb Haaland

Faculty Scholarship

"Housing is not just about housing--there's a straight line from housing stability to educational achievement and other issues including public health, physical and mental health and community development."
- Professor Serge Martinez.

Congresswoman Deb Haaland held a discussion on access to education and affordable housing, particularly the importance of accessible education and the role evictions and financial stress play in education.

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Meaning Behind The Movement: Black Lives Matter, Marissa Lucero

Black History at UNM

Dr. Finnie Coleman, Associate Professor of American Literary Studies in the Department of English Language and Literature at UNM, and Faculty Senate President, provides a long historical view with his contextualization of Black Lives Matter protests in the larger scope of Civil Rights movements. This article is part of Racism: an Educational Series, created by the UNM Newsroom.