Witnessing New Mexico exhibit creation

app/controllers/exhibits_controller.rb

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 class ExhibitsController < OverrideController
   def index
-    witness_nm_promo = LinkExhibit.new(title: "Witnessing New Mexico: The New Mexico Public Media Digitization Project", external_url: "/witnessing-nm", thumbnail_url: "https://s3.amazonaws.com/americanarchive.org/exhibits/nm_storymap_cover.png", new_tab: false)
-    @top_level_exhibits = Exhibit.all_top_level + [witness_nm_promo]
+    @top_level_exhibits = Exhibit.all_top_level
     @page_title = 'Exhibits'
   end
 

app/models/exhibit.rb

@@ -171,11 +171,7 @@ def notes_cover
   def thumbnail_url
     @thumbnail_url ||=
       begin
-        img = Nokogiri::HTML(cover_html).xpath('//img[1]/@src').first
-        img = Nokogiri::HTML(summary_html).xpath('//img[1]/@src').first unless img
-        img = Nokogiri::HTML(gallery_html).xpath('//img[1]/@src').first unless img
-        img = Nokogiri::HTML(main_html).xpath('//img[1]/@src').first unless img
-        img.text
+        Nokogiri::HTML(cover_html).xpath('//img[1]/@src').first.try(:text) || "/site-ui/aapb-square-logo.png"
       end
   end
 

app/views/exhibits/witnessing-new-mexico.md

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+# Witnessing New Mexico: The New Mexico Public Media Digitization Project
+
+## Summary
+
+The New Mexico Public Media (NMPM) Digitization Project, an innovative statewide initiative of five leading New Mexico public media stations and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), was created to digitally preserve decades’ worth of irreplaceable public television and radio programs produced in New Mexico. The project was led by New Mexico PBS and funded through a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.  
+
+The NMPM collection brings together more than 8,000 video and audio items from 1960 to 2021 that form a substantial audiovisual archive illuminating aspects of the state’s complex history. Ranging from half-hour series episodes, hour-long programs, documentaries, interviews, conversations, event coverage, speeches, lectures, debates, town hall meetings, and extensive raw footage, the collection offers a vast array of previously inaccessible content that documents New Mexico’s dynamic political, social, economic, cultural, and artistic landscape. 
+
+In addition to preserving the content for present and future generations, the NMPM project was created to make the collection available to the wider public through the ever-growing AAPB online website. The initial AAPB collection lacked materials from 12 states, including New Mexico, and from a number of U.S. territories. Along with recent AAPB initiatives, the NMPM project helps to fill gaps in the AAPB collection and provides a substantive look at New Mexico’s unique contributions to U.S. history. 
+
+NMPM Digitization Project’s fellows David P. Saiz and Dr. Rachel Snow have created *Witnessing New Mexico: The New Mexico Public Media Digitization Project*, a digital exhibit to celebrate the newly preserved collection. The exhibit invites viewers to witness numerous ways that communities in the state have historically been impacted by and offered resistance to processes of discrimination and marginalization. Television and radio programs produced by New Mexico public media since 1960 have covered the inequitable treatment of people based on differences in ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship status, tribal affiliations, and intellectual and physical (dis)abilities. *Witnessing New Mexico* presents these programs with the goal of fostering more widespread awareness, while also inspiring community action, tolerance, understanding, and reflection.
+
+## Extended
+
+## Authors
+
+## Resources
+
+## Main
+
+### Introduction
+
+*Witnessing New Mexico* provides a critical look at often obscured perspectives, stories, and peoples. During the past sixty years, New Mexico public media has covered many societal issues that continue to impact communities today. NMPM programs in this exhibit address issues related to policing, drug abuse, nativist discrimination and prejudice, land rights, educational reform, poverty, gang violence, women’s liberation and pursuit of self-determination, and legacies of colonialism. The programs often relate local issues to broader national discussions on topics such as immigration, the AIDS pandemic, mental health awareness, healthcare, and various human rights issues. 
+
+The word “witnessing” is key to understanding the intent of this exhibit because it underscores the vital role that contemporary viewers can play in the active, ongoing reinterpretation and relearning of New Mexico’s history. Throughout this exhibit, viewers can witness how language and civic life have changed in response to federal and state policies, social advocacy and resistance, and the re-visioning of historical narratives as conveyed through public media by communities that undergo constant discrimination. 
+
+With its three thematic sections, *Witnessing New Mexico* hopes to engage viewers in the process of watching and listening to first-hand, personal expressions of human experiences that have remained inaccessible for decades. The oral stories, conversations, and interviews in this exhibit present an expansive array of past and recent perspectives about New Mexico and its peoples that warrant the attention not only of New Mexicans but of other Americans as well.
+
+## Cover
+  <img title="Cover Image" alt="" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/americanarchive.org/exhibits/nm_storymap_cover.png">
+
+## Gallery 
+
+## Records
+

app/views/exhibits/witnessing-new-mexico/navigating-racism.md

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+# Part 3: Navigating Racism
+
+3
+
+## Summary
+
+Navigating the terrain of racism in New Mexico is no easy task. While racism often has been overlooked, ignored, or denied in communities, New Mexico public media stations have been sharing critical conversations about racism for decades. 
+
+The *Witnessing New Mexico* Collection provides a critical exploration of communities of peoples who have survived and thrived despite persistent racial and class-based injustices. The content presented here highlights recent and past discussions about racism in an effort to inspire critical questioning of where the state of New Mexico and the nation are headed in terms of enacting racial equity. 
+
+ "A new dialogue and debate is being heard over the fact that people of color are most often the most directly and severely impacted by pollution, toxic dumping, and often by the negative impacts of the mainstream environmental movement itself." — Marcos Martinez, *Environment, Race, and Class: The Poisoning of Communities of Color* (Part 1)
+
+## Extended
+
+## Main
+
+In Environment, Race, and Class: The Poisoning of Communities of Color ([Part 1](/catalog/cpb-aacip-207-89280r0z) & [Part 2](/catalog/cpb-aacip-207-009w0vv9)), environmental justice has taken a new focus. People of color are the most impacted by environmental pollution and dumping, and by the negative impacts of the mainstream environmental movement.
+
+The [WIPP Trail: A KNME Follow Up](/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-30prr8b9), highlights the Waste Isolation Pilot Project developed for the disposal of transuranic waste from the Department of Energy.
+
+J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium in Las Cruces, New Mexico, focuses on environmental justice in [Aggie Almanac: Environmental Justice](/catalog/cpb-aacip-d3961441685).
+
+For nearly 50 years, Sandia National Laboratory has buried wastes that are contaminated. [New Mexico in Focus: Sandia Lab's Mixed Waste Landfill](/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-45q83gz6) asks; Are communities at risk?
+
+Cancer is still more common in Anglo populations than in Native American or Hispanic/Latino communities. But, in [Public Square: Cancer: Connecting to Cultures](/catalog/cpb-aacip-7b6d36e3810), the numbers are shifting, and screening rates in these communities tend to be lower.
+
+[Project Echo](/catalog/cpb-aacip-70789cfec10) discusses treatment plans for patients suffering from Hepatitis-C living outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
+
+Representative Danice Picraux and Senator Dr. Steve Komadina talk about the legislative Health and Human Services Committee in [Report from Santa Fe; Danice Picraux and Steve Komadina](/catalog/cpb-aacip-eff8e50429d).
+
+In Report from [Santa Fe; John Heaton and Clint Harden](/catalog/cpb-aacip-0ed1dcf0542), Representative John Heaton talks about healthcare issues some of his proposed solutions.
+
+New Mexico stands as one of the poorest states in the nation, 45th in per capita income and plagued by chronic and historical poverty. Learn more in [At Week's End: Poverty in New Mexico](/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-25k98wf4).
+
+[Segunda Oportunidad (Second Chance)](/catalog/cpb-aacip-47da3d3c487) is a program that highlights Mora, New Mexico, and its economic downturn.
+
+In [New Mexico in Focus: Hunger in New Mexico](/catalog/cpb-aacip-6dc1f65cec3), many New Mexican families wonder how they are going to put food on their tables and keep their children from going to bed hungry.
+
+In [Report from Santa Fe; Pam Hyde](/catalog/cpb-aacip-7cc7b396372), Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Human Services Pam Hyde discusses fighting poverty.
+
+[Public Square: Improving Graduation Rates](/catalog/cpb-aacip-53373da918e) asks; how do we improve graduation rates and the lives of young people?
+
+In [Native American Education Strategies for Change](/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-85n8ptpb), Dr. Teresa LaFromboise (Miami) looks at the various factors impacting education for Native American children.
+
+[New Mexico in Focus: Plaintiff and Attorney in Education Lawsuit](/catalog/cpb-aacip-019a1c60d5c) covers a lawsuit arguing that the state’s public education system is not meeting constitutional requirements or providing equal access.
+
+In [New Mexico in Focus: DACA Students](/catalog/cpb-aacip-e716709cc07), DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) offers temporary protection, but not permanent legal residency to eligible young people.
+In Rio Arriba County the drug-related death rate is the highest in the nation—nearly four times the national average. Learn more in [New Mexico in Focus: Drug Epidemic in Northern New Mexico](/catalog/cpb-aacip-9f3b061fff9).
+
+In [Focus on Education: Drug Education Programs](/catalog/cpb-aacip-207-859cnxkx), Mike Hammes discusses drug education programs for drug-free schools.
+
+Representative John Heaton talks about the fight against meth labs and his proposed bill in [Report from Santa Fe: John Heaton](/catalog/cpb-aacip-c221aea3251).
+
+Seventy thousand people in the Navajo Nation live without easy access to one of the most basic necessities of life. That's the same population as Santa Fe with no running water that is safe to drink, for washing vegetables, and for bathing children. Learn more in [The Water Haulers](/catalog/cpb-aacip-798e9408500).
+
+[Rio Grande: How Clean Is Our River?](/catalog/cpb-aacip-361466538b2) is a documentary about the Rio Grande, its historical management, cleanliness and health-related concerns.
+
+Thousands of Albuquerqueans have, for years, had to deal with the fear and reality of drinking contaminated water. [At Week's End: New Mexico Groundwater](/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-10wpzhzb) tells all.
+
+Host Conroy Chino (Acoma Pueblo) and two panels of guests look behind the closed doors of institutions where a form of racism persists in [Erase the Hate: Forum 2002 (Institutional Racism)](/catalog/cpb-aacip-762b41ac6c1). It’s racism that is not always obvious, visible, or identifiable, but institutional racism is just as detrimental as any other form of discrimination. 
+
+In [Aggie Almanac: Big Read and Racism in the U.S.](/catalog/cpb-aacip-5a96ce83f9d), Gary Worth sits down with anti-racist author Tim Wise to talk about his involvement in N.M. State University’s Diversity Speaker Series. 
+
+In [Erase the Hate: Special Forum 2001](/catalog/cpb-aacip-3a5725fb037), a panel of community leaders discuss hate crimes and racial profiling cropping up in New Mexico as a result of the national tragedy of 9/11.
+
+Many people say that because of our diverse history, we are more integrated than other states. But that doesn't mean we don't have our fair share of racial tensions. Learn more in [New Mexico in Focus: Race in New Mexico](/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-19f4qtpk).
+
+Former educator and lawmaker Lenton Malry speaks openly about racism he experienced in Albuquerque in [New Mexico in Focus: Lenton Malry](/catalog/cpb-aacip-9b2d8554ee8?start=2098.16&end=2905.63).
+
+In [New Mexico in Focus: More Racial Reckoning](/catalog/cpb-aacip-bacb29558ad?start=1487.7&end=2300.89) protests against racism and monuments have captivated Santa Fe, where vandals defaced a racist obelisk.
+
+The Emmy Award-winning documentary *The Crossing* ([ep. 101](/catalog/cpb-aacip-f622aa04f6f); [ep. 102](/catalog/cpb-aacip-42c7bf866f2); [ep. 103](/catalog/cpb-aacip-c13be738a4f); [ep. 104](/catalog/cpb-aacip-a61ef8667fc)) chronicles the rash of illegal border crossings between Columbus, N.M., and southwestern New Mexico's bootheel that led to Governor Richardson's declaration of a state of emergency in 2005.
+
+[New Mexico in Focus: The Changing U.S.-Mexico Border](/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-03qv9sx0) explores the sister city relationship between Albuquerque and Chihuahua.
+
+[Aggie Almanac: Immigration Reform](/catalog/cpb-aacip-d9f37480ea0) features a look at immigration reform and interview with Nancy Oretskin, former director, U.S.-Mexico Conflict Resolution Center.
+
+Police oversight is the main topic of [New Mexico in Focus: Police Oversight Panels](/catalog/cpb-aacip-21c7077f18f), as advocates and officials debate what a new model of civilian surveillance would look like in the wake of the Department of Justice's investigation of the Albuquerque Police Department.
+
+COVID-19 has laid bare many systemic failures here in New Mexico, often revolving around the issue of racial inequality and unjust policing. [New Mexico in Focus: Policing in 2020 and Beyond Learn](/catalog/cpb-aacip-bcc05640dd9) dives further into this conversation. 
+
+[Illustrated Daily: Police Force](/catalog/cpb-aacip-68425d12a09) discusses excessive police force and the balance between upholding enforcement and maintaining individual civil rights.
+
+[The 77th: The Making of a Peace Officer](/catalog/cpb-aacip-191-25k98wcp) follows the 77th training class of the Albuquerque Police Department Academy.
+
+## Resources
+
+## Cover
+
+## Gallery
+
+## Records