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@AP reporter in US Southwest, #immigration #latino #race #poverty #travel. #MFA @ColumbiaSOA @UHouston grad. Writing #JFK book #typewriter fan rcontreras@ap.org

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    1. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras Mar 18

      Sad about not being able to travel because of #coronavirus? Well, let me take you to a few places around the world with some travel pieces. Here's my dispatch from Paris two years ago https://apnews.com/4107f91188c147c7865df060196da69b … #travel #vitualtravel

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    2. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras Mar 18

      Here's another piece about a Portuguese town opening window to its history with the slave-trade and slavery https://durangoherald.com/articles/263818  #travel #virtualtravel

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    3. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras Mar 18

      Come with me to Corpus Christi, Texas, which was the home of late Tejano singer Selana and the birthplace of the Mexican American civil rights movement https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2013/04/corpus_christi_texas_provides.html … #travel #virtualtravel #HectorPGarcia

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    4. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras Mar 18

      Meditate with me while I walk along the site of a former Japanese American Internment Camp in southeastern Colorado https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jan/10/little-left-of-ww-ii-camp-site-20160110/ … #travel #virtualtravel

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    5. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras Mar 18

      And let's try to retrace Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas today. Sadly, he's almost gone https://apnews.com/041594763b2943368cd853f4ee674314 … #travel #virtualtravel

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    6. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras Mar 18

      Let's explore a museum in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, dedicated to the Mexican Revolution, and see why a number of Mexican American families (including my own) ended up in the US more than 100 years ago https://www.concordmonitor.com/Ciudad-Juarez-museum-seeks-to-tell-Mexican-Revolution-story-10585979 … #travel #virtualtravel

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    7. Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras Mar 18

      Then let's sit down for lunch in a place in LA where former gang members work to reshape their lives and inspire, even among those of us who remain forgottenhttps://apnews.com/a03ec965db224cf3bf4b5823d80ff01d …

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      Russell Contreras‏Verified account @RussContreras Mar 18

      We can then go to Liverpool, England, but not just to see the Beatles. Let's go visit a museum seeking to put together the story of slavery https://www.news-journal.com/features/lifestyle/slavery-museum-in-liverpool-aims-to-confront-painful-legacy/article_0324e0ee-2dd1-11ea-8a96-7f9cde20aff5.html … #virtualtravel #travel

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