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The Ruben Salazar Collection of Opinion articles: “Border correspondent”
Column: Who Is a Chicano? And What Is It the Chicanos Want? By RUBEN SALAZAR, FEB. 6, 1970 A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself. He resents being told Columbus “discovered” America when the Chicano’s ancestors, the Mayans and the Aztecs, founded highly sophisticated civilizations centuries before Spain ... -
What director Phillip Rodriguez says now about the killing of Ruben Salazar
By DANIEL HERNANDEZ, LOS ANGELES TIMES - AUG. 23, 2020 In “Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle,” director Phillip Rodriguez painstakingly explores the life and death of the reporter whose public and private lives — as well as his tragic death — have inspired artists, writers, musicians, playwrights and subsequent generations ... -
The Ruben Salazar Trail: A Reporter’s Journey
By: Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times – August 23, 2020 The fax machine beeped and screeched as it transmitted a two-page document to the FBI. I was a low-level reporter for the Los Angeles Times working out of a storefront news bureau on Exposition Boulevard in South L.A., chasing ... -
‘A catalytic moment’ for art and culture
In murals, theater, photography and music, the Chicano Moratorium influenced art of its time and our time too. By carolina miranda, Los Angeles Times – August 23, 2020 It was a day that began with exuberance and then exploded in violence. It was a date that would mark in Los ... -
The Chicana Revolt: Las Adelitas de Aztlán
The women of the Brown Berets — Las Adelitas de Aztlán — break free and form their own movement. By Vanessa Martínez and Julia Barajas, Los Angeles Times – August 23, 2020 Putting pen to paper, Hilda Jensen began her letter: “Hi, I’m the girl with the bandoleros.” It was ... -
Ruben Salazar: The man behind the myth
By Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times – August 23, 2020 On Sept. 16, 1970, during a celebration of the 160th anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain, a group of young Chicanos lifted above their heads a massive, 70-pound plywood board of a smiling man in a suit and tie. The ... -
Ruben Salazar: Reading into a Prophetic Reporter
By: Gustavo Orellano, Los Angeles Times – Aug. 23, 2020 About 20 years ago, I visited a Chicano bookstore in Santa Ana to buy “Border Correspondent,” a greatest-hits compilation of pioneering Los Angeles Times writer Ruben Salazar. I was a senior at Chapman University, a film major with no journalistic aspirations but ... -
Gov. Newsom signs bill making ethnic studies course a requirement at California State University
By: ASHLEY A. SMITH, EdSource – Aug. 17, 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom sided with the state legislature on Monday by signing a bill that requires California State University students who enter as freshmen in 2021-22 to take an ethnic studies course focused on one of four ethnic groups in order to ... -
When the Brown Berets occupied Catalina Island, locals feared a Mexican ‘invasion’
By: BRITTNY MEJIA, LOS ANGELES TIMES – AUG. 16, 2020 The young Mexican Americans boarded boats and a seaplane that brought them to the shores of Santa Catalina Island. They wore conference badges that identified them as members of a Catholic youth group, but they had wrapped paramilitary-style uniforms in ... -
Women’s suffrage, 100 years on: what history class didn’t teach you
Women struggled for decades to win the right to vote, but it’s taken even longer for all to be able to exercise it. By: RACHEL HARTIGAN, APPLE NEWS – AUGUST 1, 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS BY CELESTE SLOMAN PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHANNA GOODMAN “Well I have been & gone & done it!!” ...
