Roby Chavez

Mar 7, 2024 | pbs.org | Trisha Ahmed |Roby Chavez |Kavish Harjai |Seung Min Kim

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Audio For many tribal communities in America, internet access isn't always as easy as logging on to a computer. The FCC reports almost 28 percent of tribal land residents lack high-speed broadband, compared to 1.5 percent of urban residents. But the Biden administration is offering funds to try and change that. Cronkite News reporter Maria Staubs reports on how better connectivity may not be enough.

Feb 23, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Roby Chavez

Feb 22, 2024 | pbs.org | Roby Chavez

NEW ORLEANS — Every three weeks, Shenard Matthews makes the sign of the cross and prays before he jumps into his truck for a five-hour drive to Houston. For more than a year, the 53-year-old, who lives with stage 4 lung cancer, has been making this trip to get life-saving care not offered in his home state.

Jan 26, 2024 | pbs.org | Roby Chavez

Editors’ note: this story contains graphic images. GRETNA, La. — Palestinian Americans in the New Orleans area are shaken by the killing of a local 17-year-old while he was visiting family in the occupied West Bank. Grief and anger are raw a week after a witness says Israeli security forces fatally shot the teen, and the community’s cry for justice and accountability is growing. Born and raised in a New Orleans suburb, Tawfic Abdeljabbar was killed northeast of Ramallah on Jan.

Jan 18, 2024 | pbs.org | Roby Chavez

BATON ROUGE, La. — Time is running out for Louisiana to redraw the state congressional map. Lawmakers face a Jan. 30 deadline to submit a redesign of the state’s six congressional districts after a federal court said the current map violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters. The redesign must create a second majority-Black district, the court said.