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A conversation with La Raza’s Luis Garza
By: Melanie Romo, Assistant Features Editor, The Runner – October 7, 2020 The Latino/a Faculty and Staff Association (LFSA) at CSU Bakersfield hosted an event with guest speaker Luis C. Garza, photographer for La Raza Magazine, in honor of the 50-year anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium on Sept. 23. ... -
Por vez primera en 51 años no habrá marcha por la matanza del 68
Por: Elba Mónica Bravo y Alma E. Muñoz, La Jornada – 1º de octubre de 2020 Con la finalidad de evitar confrontaciones y disturbios por diversos grupos, este viernes no se realizará la marcha conmemorativa de la matanza estudiantil el 2 de octubre de 1968, de la Plaza de las ... -
Jessica Quintana shares passion and caring at Centro CHA
By Stephanie Stutzman, The Grunion – Sep. 21, 2020 While some move away from home for college or a new job thereafter, others stay right where they are in the hope they can create something even sweeter for those around them. "I grew up in Long Beach. I've lived here ... -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy
In the rearview mirror, the victories of a trailblazing feminist. On the road ahead, the threat of an entrenched and powerful minority. By The Editorial Board, Op-Ed New York Times - Sep. 19, 2020 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at the age of 87, will forever have two ... -
How Latinos Can Win the Culture War
By Elizabeth Méndez Berry and Mónica Ramírez, New York Times – Sep. 2, 2020 The story about Latinos in America is an old one. And it isn’t true. Created generations ago by whites to demonize Mexicans and then Puerto Ricans, the racist caricature of Latinos as a menacing foreign monolith ... -
Hundreds converge on East Los Angeles for 50th anniversary of Chicano Moratorium
By DORANY PINEDA, DOUG SMITH, ALEX WIGGLESWORTH, LOS ANGELES TIMES – AUG. 30, 2020 Several hundred marchers and dozens of tricked-out cars converged on an East Los Angeles park Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, a peace march to protest racial injustice and the disproportionate death toll of ... -
Cuando los mexicoamericanos se transformaron en chicanos: Recuerdos de la moratoria chicana en el Este ...
By ÁLVARO HUERTA, PH.D., Los Angeles Times – AGOSTO 29, 2020 Mientras que las agencias de policías y otras agencias estatales han dado muerte a negros, latinos e indígenas desde que los primeros europeos llegaron al continente americano hace varios cientos de años, los horribles videos que documentan la tortura y ... -
Half a century after the death of Rubén Salazar by the Police, the controversy survives
By: EFE News, Los Angeles, August 28, 2020 The memory and legacy of Mexican journalist Rubén Salazar are still alive 50 years after his death at the hands of Los Angeles sheriffs, a death that still raises doubts and accentuates the controversy over police brutality against minorities in the United States. ... -
Mexican American Vietnam War vets recall the Chicano Moratorium, 50 years later
By BRITTNY MEJIA, LOS ANGELES TIMES – AUG. 28, 2020 As helicopters and C-130s flew over a mountaintop bunker in Vietnam, an Army soldier flipped through a copy of Time magazine and asked Tomás Sandoval two questions. Are you from Los Angeles? How about Mexican? Sandoval said yes to both. “Look ... -
A LOSS of INNOCENCE
It started as a peace march. But for the Moratorium generation, the day left protesters dismayed, disappointed and angry. By Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times - Aug. 23, 2020 The night before Aug. 29, 1970, a date that would be remembered for dashed hopes and heartbreak, then-9-year-old Consuelo Flores went ...
