Seldom do people meet the authors of books they read. UNM professor Celia Lopez-Chavez teaches an honors class called The Legacy of Writing: Voices, Words and Flavors of New Mexico.
To John Morningstar, a co-owner of clothing store Free Radicals, self-expression is an endowed liberty. “Expressing yourself as an individual is the most important birthright we have in this country,” he said. In that vein, Free Radicals, an alternative clothing store, promotes counterculture and competes against big-box, conformist retail chains.
Forty-six percent of New Mexican adults can’t read above a fifth-grade level, and the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy is trying to change that one reader at a time.
Solutions by The State News
