Steven Monacelli

3 weeks ago | thebarbedwire.com | Steven Monacelli

Once upon a time, in the 1920s, the State Fair of Texas hosted “Fitter Family” contests that graded entrants on physical appearance, health, behavior, and intelligence. The winners, according to the eugenicist judges, were most likely to produce offspring deemed genetically superior — and were “invariably white with western and northern European heritage.”The 1925 winners of the “Large Family” contest happily posed on a series of steps.

3 weeks ago | sacurrent.com | Steven Monacelli

By Steven Monacelli, The Texas Tribune on Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 10:55 am Last month, Congressman Marc Veasey, a North Texas Democrat, sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Deputy Director Kenneth Genalo demanding a swift investigation into James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, an ICE assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in immigration court in Dallas.

4 weeks ago | tspantx.com | Steven Monacelli

Last month, Congressman Marc Veasey, a North Texas Democrat, sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Deputy Director Kenneth Genalo demanding a swift investigation into James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, an ICE assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in immigration court in Dallas. The letter came in response to a Texas Observer investigative report that identified Rodden as the operator of a white supremacist social media account.

4 weeks ago | texasobserver.org | Steven Monacelli

Last month, Congressman Marc Veasey, a North Texas Democrat, sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Deputy Director Kenneth Genalo demanding a swift investigation into James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, an ICE assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in immigration court in Dallas. The letter came in response to a Texas Observer investigative report that identified Rodden as the operator of a white supremacist social media account.

1 month ago | l8r.it | Steven Monacelli |Tim Rogers

Last week in The Cedars, a group of about 40 local education advocates and community leaders gathered for the launch of a new nonprofit. They were there at the invitation of the Dallas Education Collective (DEC), which was making its public debut in the offices of the Child Poverty Action Lab (CPAL), whose founder and CEO, Alan Cohen, had signed on as an advisor for the new group.