In the weekend edition of The Brief podcast, Gwendolyn McMillan Lawe reflects on the challenges she and other Black and Latino voters faced at the polls in November.
Faith Castle
Faith Castle was a 2020 multimedia fellow. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Faith is a co-founder of BlackPrint, UT’s only Black interest publication. She has worked as a multimedia intern at KUT and as video editor at The Daily Texan, and she was president of the National Association of Black Journalists at UT.
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Split Decision 2020
Chip Roy and Wendy Davis face off on women’s health, managing the coronavirus and being a Washington disruptor
Roy, the one-term Republican congressman who represents the Austin-area district, squares off with Davis, his Democratic challenger, in our Split Decision virtual debate series.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Out of savings and without enough money for food, this North Texas woman is running out of options
Carrie Mansfield says that while more relief from the government would be welcome, she really just wants to get back to work. Listen in the weekend edition of The Brief podcast.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Texas eased restrictions for nursing homes — but she still can’t see her mom and knows that isolation can be deadly
Jimmie Arnold’s mother-in-law and mother were in the same nursing home in Bryan when Gov. Greg Abbott barred all visitation to limit the spread of the coronavirus. In the weekend edition of The Brief podcast, listen to why Arnold says after six months, it’s taking its toll.
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“It’s pretty hard to learn how to draw an IV online”: This nursing student is grateful for hands-on training this semester
In the weekend edition of The Brief podcast, listen to why a University of Texas at Austin sophomore says attending in-person labs during the pandemic is worth the risk.