Month: November 2020
Seeing Red: The Color of the Spirits
Images of Native Women honor those who are missing
Deep red and feeling blue
Nine months into the pandemic, Carlsbad residents are divided, defiant and in search of a silver lining.
A Black life ends in a New Mexico police shooting
by Dillon BerginStaff Reporter
A state police officer shot and killed Rodney Applewhite on a barren road south of Albuquerque. A week later, his shattered family still has no information about why, and how, his life ended.
Not Even Remotely
by Ike SwetlitzInvestigative Reporter
Once the Wild West, Las Vegas is now the wired West as parents and kids cope with a life lived online.
Uprooted
by Ed Williams and Don J. Usner
A police raid near Shiprock has all but ended an illicit cannabis-growing operation
The deadly loss of Navajo women
by Sunnie R. ClahchischiligiContributing Writer
On the Navajo Nation, the coronavirus is leaving children motherless, families lost and traditions in peril. But Diné women fight on.
Then and Now: Portraits of Albuquerque Voters
by Dillon BerginStaff Reporter
Voters respond to what’s changed since 2016
New Mexicans go to the polls
Searchlight photographer Don J. Usner travelled the state during early voting to capture New Mexicans as they head to the polls.