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A tribute to 50 Years of Struggle & Sacrifice for La Raza
ARMANDO NAVARRO: PRESENTE October 31, 1941 – March 25, 2022 By Herman Baca, PresidentCommittee on Chicano Rights April 23, 2022 The passing of Armando Navarro, Chicano activist, community organizer, author, historian, scholar, political scientist & professor of ethnic studies at the University of California-Riverside has left the Chicano/Mexicano/Latino people with ... -
FLASHBACK PERSPECTIVE: 50 Years After The East LA Walkouts, We’re Still Fighting For Latino Students
Latino students must know about their history to push back against the narratives that limit them. By Irene Sanchez | Huffington Post | MAR. 2, 2018 | Photo by David McNew History repeats itself. I often tell my students this when I teach Latino studies every day at three different ... -
What we got wrong about Black and Korean communities after the L.A. riots
By Frank Shyong | Los Angeles Times | APR. 27, 2022 | Photo by Hyungwon Kang “What are you doing down here?” The year was 2017, and I was at the intersection of Manchester and South Normandie avenues, where the Los Angeles riots had raged a quarter century before. I ... -
Column: He was murdered during the L.A. riots. We can’t forget Latinos like him
Arellano highlights the lasting effects that the civil unrest of '92 have had on the lives of several Latino families. By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | APR. 27, 2022 | Photo by Tomas Ovalle BAKERSFIELD — Thirty years ago, Eduardo Cañedo Vela was the manager at a Japanese restaurant in ... -
How Santa Ana segregated Mexican students amid the 1918 pandemic
By Gabriel San Ramon | LA Times | APR. 14, 2022 | Photo from the archives of Chapman University Before influenza cases ravaged through Orange County in the fall of 1918, a battle brewed at the Santa Ana Board of Education over Mexican students. Trustees reneged on their promise to ... -
Honoring the life of Armando Navarro — scholar, activist and Chicano leader
By Alfonso Gonzalez Toribo and Jennifer R. Najera | Press-Enterprise | APR. 16, 2022 | Photo from UC Riverside The Inland Empire has lost an important scholar and activist. Armando Navarro, a retired UC Riverside ethnic studies professor, passed away from a heart attack on March 25, 2022. He was ... -
Rosario Ibarra, Mexico’s champion of the disappeared, dies at 95
The world mourns the loss of a tirelessly brave advocate for human rights. By Maria Verza | LA Times | APR. 18, 2022 | Photo by Marco Ugarte MEXICO CITY — Rosario Ibarra, whose long struggle to learn the fate of her disappeared son helped develop Mexico’s human rights movement and ... -
Puerto Rico’s future status should not be a pawn in political gameplay
By Jean Guerrero | LA Times | APR. 14, 2022 | Photo by Patrick Semansky For Democrats who want to stop the right-wing assault on democracy, statehood for Puerto Rico can seem like a simple fix — one so enticing it may be easy to forget the will of the Puerto Rican people. As ... -
CSU provost faced retaliation after reporting harassment by president’s husband, records claim
In the wake of the Board of Trustees' recent ouster of former Chancellor Joe Castro, more and more of the dirty laundry of other officials within the CSU system keeps coming out. By Colleen Shalby & Robert J. Lopez | LA Times | APR. 13, 2022 | Photo by Alyssa ... -
How Mendez versus Westminster helped end legal segregation of schools in the southwest
Thursday was the 75th anniversary of the ruling that barred creating separate schools for “Spanish-speaking” children. By Michael Marks | KERA news | APR. 15, 2022 | Photo by Mendez family On April 14, 1947, a federal court in California made a landmark decision on school segregation in a case ...
