San Antonio nonprofit spreads awareness on voting education, voter registration

SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio nonprofit has been working with schools and organizations to grow youth voting in Bexar County. Last year, Heather Eichling started the nonprofit, Youth Do Vote. “We’ve been building lots of partnerships with school districts, individual schools and teachers and nonprofits,” Heather Eichling, the founder and executive director of Youth … Read more

Some urban lit authors see fiction in the Oscar-nominated ‘American Fiction’

NEW YORK – Omar Tyree, author of such urban lit narratives as “Flyy Girl” and “The Last Street Novel,” recently went to see the Oscar-nominated movie “American Fiction.” “I loved the emotions of the family,” Tyree said of the comic drama starring best actor nominee Jeffrey Wright as the struggling author-academic Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, Leslie … Read more

Search for missing San Antonio teen ended

The 15-year-old male was last seen Monday morning on the far southwest side. SAN ANTONIO — Authorities are searching for a San Antonio teenager who went missing on Monday on the far southwest side.  According to a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office missing persons report, 15-year-old Connor Jacob Lowery was last seen Monday at 9 a.m. … Read more