By Julian Mark ~ Mission Local ~ May 29, 2018 Rene Yañez, an artist and co-founder of Galería De La Raza and the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, died Tuesday morning in the hospital. He was 75. Yañez had long suffered from cancer, and despite a short prognosis and intensifying ...

Documentary Film Premiere: 'Advance Parole' Broken unDACAmented dreams A DACA-mented immigrant's plight to re-establish Advance Parole to be able to reunite with her family in times of hardship. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2018 - 6PM AT THE GENERAL CONSULATE OF MEXICO IN Los Angeles 2401 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90057 FREE and OPEN ...

Luis C. Garza, Student and barrio youth lead protest march, La Marcha por La Justicia, Belvedere Park. January 31, 1971, 1971. ©LUIS C. GARZA/COURTESY THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE UCLA CHICANO STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER By Maximiliano Durón ~ Art News ~ May 11, 2018 Over the past two years, there has been a ...

By Mark Rudd ~ NY Times ~ April 22, 2018 We entered Barnard and Columbia in the mid-1960s optimistic, eager to learn and proud of our new schools. By the end of May 1968, almost a thousand of us had been arrested, beaten or expelled (as I was) by our ...

Por Redacción ~ La Opinion ~ 5 de Mayo 2018 Si bien cada Cinco de Mayo se recuerda la fecha en la que el ejército mexicano derrotó a los franceses en la Batalla de Puebla, esta lección no solo se imparte en las aulas sino también en diversos eventos que ...

By Tony Perrottet ~ Smithsonian Magazine ~ May 2018 As its greatest old buildings were falling down, a fearless historian named Eusebio Leal remade the city into a stunning world destination On a sweltering morning in Old Havana, a courtly figure in a crisp gray guayabera shirt weaves through the ...

By Peter Kornbluh ~ Politico ~ May/June 2018 Lisa Howard had been waiting for more than two hours in a suite of the Hotel Riviera, enough time to bathe, dress and apply makeup, then take it all off to get ready for bed when she thought he wasn’t coming. But at 11:30 ...

By Alissa Torres ~ NY Times ~ April 27, 2018 A woman opens her heart to a relationship with a young immigrant from Colombia, despite the likelihood that it can’t last. The departures by way of detention and deportation that I see on the news, wrenching scenes of love being pulled ...

By Junot Diaz ~ New Yorker ~ April 16, 2018 X- Last week I returned to Amherst. It’s been years since I was there, the time we met. I was hoping that you’d show up again; I even looked for you, but you didn’t appear. I remember you proudly repped ...

In 1968, hundreds of students were killed by the Mexican military and police for organizing student protests against government repression. On the fiftieth anniversary of this massacre, activists/survivors David Vega, Myrthokleia Gonzalez, Felipe Galván, and Jesús Gutiérrez will reflect on the meaning of student activism, memory, and social justice in ...