Russell Contreras
@russcontreras.bsky.social
Senior Race and Justice Reporter for Axios. Houston born, New Mexico-based. #ColumbiaMFA #UH #race #journalism #writing #history #immigration #latino https://www.axios.com/authors/rcontreras
Remembering the ancestors on this #diadelosmuertos
Their fights here and abroad give us life today
#diademuertosmexico #diadelosmuertos2025🏵️🇲🇽
Their fights here and abroad give us life today
#diademuertosmexico #diadelosmuertos2025🏵️🇲🇽
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Remembering the ancestors on this #diadelosmuertos
Their fights here and abroad give us life today
#diademuertosmexico #diadelosmuertos2025🏵️🇲🇽
Their fights here and abroad give us life today
#diademuertosmexico #diadelosmuertos2025🏵️🇲🇽
The band???
U.S. State Department designates Los Choneros and Los Lobos criminal groups as "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17067.pdf #labamba #willthewolfsurvive #EastLA
U.S. State Department designates Los Choneros and Los Lobos criminal groups as "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17067.pdf #labamba #willthewolfsurvive #EastLA
September 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The band???
U.S. State Department designates Los Choneros and Los Lobos criminal groups as "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17067.pdf #labamba #willthewolfsurvive #EastLA
U.S. State Department designates Los Choneros and Los Lobos criminal groups as "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17067.pdf #labamba #willthewolfsurvive #EastLA
Rural states in the American South and West had some of the nation's highest violent crime and homicide rates in 2024, driven by violence in small communities, according to an Axios analysis of FBI data www.axios.com/2025/09/01/v...
September 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Rural states in the American South and West had some of the nation's highest violent crime and homicide rates in 2024, driven by violence in small communities, according to an Axios analysis of FBI data www.axios.com/2025/09/01/v...
Congratulations to the @fresnogrizzlies.bsky.social walk off win tonite and they are now playoff bound @milb.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Congratulations to the @fresnogrizzlies.bsky.social walk off win tonite and they are now playoff bound @milb.com
Another walk off on @milb.com! @rivercats.bsky.social walk it off in the 11th.
August 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Another walk off on @milb.com! @rivercats.bsky.social walk it off in the 11th.
Scene from Albuquerque downtown today
#streetphotography #urbanphotography #photography #NewMexicoTrue
#streetphotography #urbanphotography #photography #NewMexicoTrue
August 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Scene from Albuquerque downtown today
#streetphotography #urbanphotography #photography #NewMexicoTrue
#streetphotography #urbanphotography #photography #NewMexicoTrue
Love watching @milb.com on Saturdays. Just saw the Vancouver Canadians walk it off at the bottom of the 9th with a 2-run homer from Sean Keys of Huntington, NY
August 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Love watching @milb.com on Saturdays. Just saw the Vancouver Canadians walk it off at the bottom of the 9th with a 2-run homer from Sean Keys of Huntington, NY
To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, theatre, entertainment and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text and post a pic on YOUR page
August 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
To all professionals (and retirees) in the journalism, film, television, theatre, entertainment and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of yourself in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text and post a pic on YOUR page
Fun Fact! @jaketapper.bsky.social was a young reporter with Salon and gave me credit (an even younger reporter at the time for the Houston Press) for my reporting on George P Bush in 2000. Total gent!
May 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Fun Fact! @jaketapper.bsky.social was a young reporter with Salon and gave me credit (an even younger reporter at the time for the Houston Press) for my reporting on George P Bush in 2000. Total gent!
My @axios.com colleague Alex Thompson on @cnn.com talking about his well reported book on Biden’s last days in office. Well reported with @jaketapper.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My @axios.com colleague Alex Thompson on @cnn.com talking about his well reported book on Biden’s last days in office. Well reported with @jaketapper.bsky.social
Visiting sites of the blues that influenced "Sinners" www.axios.com/2025/05/10/s... #blues #sinners #blackhistory #vampires
May 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Visiting sites of the blues that influenced "Sinners" www.axios.com/2025/05/10/s... #blues #sinners #blackhistory #vampires
80 years ago this week, grandpa marched into Berlin. Carlos Contreras was 19.
#wwii #chicanoveterans #veday
#wwii #chicanoveterans #veday
May 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
80 years ago this week, grandpa marched into Berlin. Carlos Contreras was 19.
#wwii #chicanoveterans #veday
#wwii #chicanoveterans #veday
Today is the 80th anniversary of my late Uncle Ernest Eguia's unit liberating the Nordhausen concentration camp. April 11, 1945.
I'll forever be in awe of what he fought for abroad, and then at home.
liberation.buchenwald.de/en/otd1945/t...
I'll forever be in awe of what he fought for abroad, and then at home.
liberation.buchenwald.de/en/otd1945/t...
April 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Today is the 80th anniversary of my late Uncle Ernest Eguia's unit liberating the Nordhausen concentration camp. April 11, 1945.
I'll forever be in awe of what he fought for abroad, and then at home.
liberation.buchenwald.de/en/otd1945/t...
I'll forever be in awe of what he fought for abroad, and then at home.
liberation.buchenwald.de/en/otd1945/t...
Daughter Ava striking suckas out. Two innings pitched, four strikeouts
#softball #softballislife #softballdads #strikeouts
#softball #softballislife #softballdads #strikeouts
April 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Daughter Ava striking suckas out. Two innings pitched, four strikeouts
#softball #softballislife #softballdads #strikeouts
#softball #softballislife #softballdads #strikeouts
April 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The University of Houston degree in mechanical engineering my grandfather Carlos Contreras earned in 1954 thanks to the GI Bill after serving in World War II. It's my alma mater, too. Go Coogs!
#ForTheCity #UH #FinalFour #Houston
#ForTheCity #UH #FinalFour #Houston
April 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The University of Houston degree in mechanical engineering my grandfather Carlos Contreras earned in 1954 thanks to the GI Bill after serving in World War II. It's my alma mater, too. Go Coogs!
#ForTheCity #UH #FinalFour #Houston
#ForTheCity #UH #FinalFour #Houston
I interviewed Sylvester Turner for @axios.com when he was mayor of Houston. We both claimed 'the 44' -- the historic Black neighborhood of Acres Homes where we're both from. (My immigrant great grandfather settled there when he came to the US). Turner, a Congressman, died last night.
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I interviewed Sylvester Turner for @axios.com when he was mayor of Houston. We both claimed 'the 44' -- the historic Black neighborhood of Acres Homes where we're both from. (My immigrant great grandfather settled there when he came to the US). Turner, a Congressman, died last night.
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat from New Mexico, holds a "This Is Not Normal" sign during a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images #NMpol
March 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat from New Mexico, holds a "This Is Not Normal" sign during a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images #NMpol
February 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Walks alone in the desert are clearing my mind 🏜️
#hiking #latinosoutdoors #NewMexicoTrue #desert #desertlife #walking
#hiking #latinosoutdoors #NewMexicoTrue #desert #desertlife #walking
February 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Walks alone in the desert are clearing my mind 🏜️
#hiking #latinosoutdoors #NewMexicoTrue #desert #desertlife #walking
#hiking #latinosoutdoors #NewMexicoTrue #desert #desertlife #walking
A walk in the New Mexico desert on an unknown road to me
#hiking #walking #NewMexicoTrue #meditations
#hiking #walking #NewMexicoTrue #meditations
February 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A walk in the New Mexico desert on an unknown road to me
#hiking #walking #NewMexicoTrue #meditations
#hiking #walking #NewMexicoTrue #meditations
New Mexico State Rep. Mark Duncan seen here texting (or changing the tunes on a music stream via smart phone) while in traffic at a stalled red light in Rio Rancho, NM
Texting while driving is against the law in New Mexico. #NMpol #NewMexicoTrue #NMLeg
Texting while driving is against the law in New Mexico. #NMpol #NewMexicoTrue #NMLeg
February 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
New Mexico State Rep. Mark Duncan seen here texting (or changing the tunes on a music stream via smart phone) while in traffic at a stalled red light in Rio Rancho, NM
Texting while driving is against the law in New Mexico. #NMpol #NewMexicoTrue #NMLeg
Texting while driving is against the law in New Mexico. #NMpol #NewMexicoTrue #NMLeg
Confused about immigration in the news? Here's my intro immigration reading list of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, history and memoirs. These are some of my favorites. Reply with some of yours.
#immigration #refugees #asylumseekers #immigrants #borders #migrants #migration #walls
#immigration #refugees #asylumseekers #immigrants #borders #migrants #migration #walls
January 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Confused about immigration in the news? Here's my intro immigration reading list of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, history and memoirs. These are some of my favorites. Reply with some of yours.
#immigration #refugees #asylumseekers #immigrants #borders #migrants #migration #walls
#immigration #refugees #asylumseekers #immigrants #borders #migrants #migration #walls
#respect. I'll still be around at @axios.com bring you stories around race and justice. My partner in crime Astrid Galvan will also be at Axios in a new role. We aren't going anywhere anytime soon #journalism
December 28, 2024 at 6:22 AM
#respect. I'll still be around at @axios.com bring you stories around race and justice. My partner in crime Astrid Galvan will also be at Axios in a new role. We aren't going anywhere anytime soon #journalism