# Jovita Idar
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jovita idar Vivero (September 7, 1885 – June 15, 1946) was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, which lasted a decade from 1910 through 1920, she worked for a series of newspapers, using her writing to work towards making a meaningful and effective change. She began her career in journalism at La Crónica, her father's newspaper in Laredo, Texas, her hometown.
Episode 13: Hypnotized, Mesmerized by What Our Eyes Have Found
The latest episode of The Persistence opens with a very relatable childhood crisis: that first moment when a story you believed your whole life suddenly unravels. Host Angélica Cordero uses this myth-busting moment as a bridge into a larger cultural awakening, tracing how early 20th-century art mov…
It's coming on Christmas
Christmas is often sold as a season of arrival and perfection, but its oldest stories tell something very different. In this episode of The Persistence, Angélica Cordero explores how modern Christmas imagery, from Santa’s familiar red suit to the feeling that the holiday should look a certain way, …
Episode 14: The World Keeps Turning
In this episode of The Persistence, Angélica Cordero traces how some of the most consequential changes in history didn’t begin with explosions or speeches, but with stillness. Opening with a personal memory of watching Jurassic Park alongside her grandmother (who always knew exactly when someone wa…
Am I invisible 'cause you ignore me?
In this minisode of The Persistence, Angélica Cordero takes a hard look at the phrase “If you see something, say something” and what it’s really taught us about staying quiet, staying safe, and staying out of it. From civic culture to everyday behavior, this episode breaks down how silence often ge…
Episode 36 – A Conversation about Justice and Faith with Keishia Lee Louis
February is Black History Month. We’d like to spotlight Keishia Lee Louis, an African American educator and children’s author, who’s using her words to impact the next generation for good. Through both scholarship and storytelling, Keishia seeks to illuminate God’s image reflected in literature and…
Episode 15: Strange You Never Knew
In this episode of The Persistence, Angélica Cordero examines the breaking point of the 1960s, when the promises of the Civil Rights Movement collided with the reality of the Vietnam War, political violence, and a growing crisis of trust in American institutions.
By the mid-1960s, landmark legislat…
Episode 16: I See No Changes
The late 1960s were supposed to be proof that things were working.
Civil rights legislation had passed. The language of progress was everywhere. On paper, it looked like the system had responded.
But on the ground?
That story didn’t hold.
This episode explores the turning point of the 1960s civil r…
Episode 17: Now They Do What They Told Ya
What do you do when the system publicly breaks in front of everyone… and then just keeps going?
In the early 1970s, America looked like it was restoring order. The protests of the 1960s had fractured public trust, televised violence had exposed deep cracks in American institutions, and “law and ord…
Episode 18: Left in the cold, Kept in the Dark
In the 1980s, America was sold a picture of recovery: morning light, trimmed lawns, rising confidence, and a country ready to feel good again.
But recovery has a frame. And outside that frame, people were already being asked to survive what the official story refused to see.
This episode of The Per…
Episode 37: Jovita Idar U.S. Mint Women’s Quarter Series
Jovita Idar U.S. Mint Women’s Quarter Series
Photo: U.S. Mint
Jovita Idar U.S. Mint Women’s Quarter Series is unique and representative of her life’s work. Some women don’t just speak up… they stand firm when it matters most. Jovita Idar was one of those women.
A journalist, teacher, and activi…
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