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Remembering Chicano Moratorium, legacy of journalist Rubén Salazar
By Monica Lopez | KCRW | AUG. 29, 2022 | Photo courtesy of LA Public Library Fifty years ago, 30,000 people marched to Laguna Park in East LA. They were mostly Chicanos. The three-mile march was called the Chicano Moratorium. “Moratorium” because they wanted to stop the disproportionate number of ... -
Latinophobia in mainstream news fuels the radical right
Column by Jean Guerrero | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 22, 2022 | Photo by Willy Sanjuan A main driver of democracy’s decline in the United States is Latinophobia — from its central role in the rise of Donald Trump to its influence in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Any news ... -
How a kid from El Monte became one of Hollywood’s few Latino executives
By Meg James | The Los Angeles Times | AUG. 17, 2022 | Photo by Mel Melcon Scouring his high school class schedule, then-14-year-old Cris Abrego caught his breath. TV Production. It was 1986, and the incoming freshman, a self-described TV addict, assumed the course would teach Latino teens like ... -
Stop erasing Latinos from the screen. We were finally seeing progress
Column by Jean Guerrero | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 6, 2022 | Photo by Laura Magruder She’s the kind of heroine Latinas need today: 12-year-old Cucu Castelli, played on HBO’s “Gordita Chronicles” by Olivia Goncalves, knows how to stand up to bullies and bigots. She’s proudly brown and chubby. (Her nickname, ... -
The new generation of smug American expats in Mexico needs to face the truth
Column by Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | JUL. 29, 2022 | Photo by Celia Talbot Tobin The dusty truck bounced along the narrow streets of Jomulquillo, the village in the Mexican state of Zacatecas where my father was born. It darted in front of vacant homes, slowed past ... -
Column: Choco Taco isn’t ‘authentic,’ but this Mexican respects it. Sorry, Diana Kennedy
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | JUL. 27, 2022 | Photo by Claire Grummon for AP The recent passing of two Mexican food legends sparked grief across the world. Online essays and testimonials were quickly published. In television and radio interviews, acolytes hailed their pioneering work in promoting ... -
In defense of street food vendors and the right to honest, hard work
Column by Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | JUL. 18, 2022 | Photo by Raul Roa I started off this year writing about food vendors, in the hope that haters might leave them alone as the economy worsens and more people get into it — because, you know, carne asada shouldn’t ... -
Sheinbaum reconoce a los soñadores que están en Estados Unidos
By Pauline Gagnon | Mexico ESUno | JUL. 20, 2022 El Jefe de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México, Claudia Sheinbaum reconoció el soñadores y todo el inmigrantes Mexicanos que se encuentran en Estados Unidos, ya que tuvieron que salir del país principalmente por necesidad. “Están buscando una oportunidad de vida, son héroes y heroínas ... -
Claudia Sheinbaum meets with dreamers at the Mexico City Museum
The head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, met with dreamers at the Museum in Mexico City. Story & photos by Carlos Navarro | El Heraldo de Mexico | JUL. 20, 2022 In front of these young people who returned to Mexico for the first time in the summer of 2021, after ... -
'Jane the Virgin' writer: From undocumented English learner to Hollywood
Legal troubles, community colleges helped author Rafael Agustin find way forward. By Anne Vasquez | EdSource | JUL. 19, 2022 | Photo by Marvin Lemus The plight of undocumented students often gets told through the pursuits and failings of policy that can feel like alphabet soup – DACA, Prop 187, AB ...
