By ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN, Los Angeles Times, STAFF WRITER , Sept. 29, 2019 In Migrant’s Bend Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, a new statue stands. It measures about 20 feet tall. A bronze migrant worker holds el cortito, a short-handled hoe that required field workers to be bent over for their 10- to ...

––> Read Full Newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/26906b1565eb/update-on-50th-anniversary-of-chicano-studies-conference-program-and-first-advance-parole-voices-live-webcast SPECIAL INVITATION TO JOHN LEGUIZAMO’S LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS We are pleased to announce that in recognition of the CMSC’s National Campaign to Restore DACA’s Advance Parole, the Center Theatre Group (CTG) and John Leguizamo’s touring company has invited 60 of our Dreamers to attend a complimentary ...

Read full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/d644cfe3b02c/invitacin-a-celebrar-50-aos-de-estudios-chicanos-invitation-to-celebrate-50-years-of-chicano-studies El Centro de Estudios California-México (CMSC), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef), San Diego State University (SDSU) y el Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT) se complacen en invitar a la Conferencia del 50 Aniversario de la Creación de Estudios Chicanos, que se dará a cabo en El Colef en Tijuana, B.C., México del ...

By JULIA WICK, LA Times ~ AUG. 22, 2019 History usually belongs to the conquerors, or the esteemed academics. But sometimes it also gets told by whoever most carefully corrals all the pieces and wrestles them into place. The Chicano Research Center, a storefront library on a rundown stretch of Stockton’s east ...

El venezolano falleció a los 95 años de edad en su residencia en París; se enfocó principalmente en el fenómeno cromático. Por: EFE, El Universal - 07/28/19 El venezolano Carlos Cruz-Díez, uno de los principales exponentes del llamado arte cinético y óptico, ha fallecido en París a los 95 años, ...

50 years after activists reclaimed the word, a new generation wrestles with whether it’s inclusive enough... By Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times ~ June 3, 2019 Joe Rodriguez was a teenager when he first embraced the slur. For years, Mexican Americans of low social status like him were called Chicanos. ...

Read full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/d30976a4546b/this-week-cesar-chavez-day-celebration-at-csulb PRESS RELEASE Momentous Cesar Chavez Day Celebration at CSULB The Long Beach community is honored to celebrate Cesar Chavez Day with Dr. José Ángel Gutierrez’ lecture and presentation of his new book, The Eagle Has Eyes, at the CSULB Anatol Center on March 20, 2019 at 3pm. ...

By: Scott Jaschik ~ Inside Higher Ed ~ January 22, 2019 University says it is trying to balance the inspiration the murals gave to Roman Catholic immigrants more than a century ago and the pain the paintings create for Native Americans today. The University of Notre Dame announced Friday that it will ...

WASHINGTON, DC (January 16, 2019) – Darío Guerrero is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient from Mexico who self-deported in 2014 to seek alternative cancer treatment for his dying mother, Rocío . His plight to re-enter the US after she died received national attention, until he was finally ...

We are happy to announce that our documentary film Advance Parole (2018) will be screened at Luther Place Memorial Church in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 7 PM. This event will feature stories and testimonies from Dreamers from across the country on the importance of Advance Parole ...