Texas Standard for April 14, 2016
A Texas high school student wears blackface to a party. From the high school there’s silence until it becomes national news. Also: Environmentalists have fought a coal mine in south Texas for years, unsuccessfully. Now, Native Americans are stepping in. We’ll hear why. Plus: A first-of-its-kind statewide hotline for sexual abuse survivors. And: Who needs basements? The self-storage phenomenon made in Texas reaches critical mass. Also: Is that a grasshopper in your tortilla? Taking tacos to the extreme. All that and more, today on the Texas Standard:
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./KUT
Leah Scarpelli directs the show.
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