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Church known as a birthplace of LA's Chicano civil rights movement earns national recognition
The Church of the Epiphany in the 1960s became a center for the flourishing Chicano movement. Five decades later, it has earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. By Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service – February 8, 2021 LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Lydia Lopez was demonstrating in ... -
Despite sitting on billions, Catholic dioceses amassed $3 billion taxpayer PPP pandemic aid
By REESE DUNKLIN AND MICHAEL REZENDES, LOS ANGELES TIMES – FEB. 4, 2021 Scores of Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. had more than $10 billion in cash and other readily available funds when they received at least $1.5 billion from the nation’s emergency relief program for small businesses slammed by the ... -
The history behind the debate over 'Chicano' and other labels goes as far back as ...
By HERMAN BACA, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE – JAN. 4, 2021 What’s the difference between Chicano, Latino, Mexican American, Hispanic, Chicanx or Latinx? Historically, the question of identification for Mexicans left in the U.S. after the U.S.-Mexico War ended in 1848 as to who we are and how we identify ... -
Illusion of Justice: the case of Leonard Peltier, a Native American Political Prisoner for 44 ...
By: Dr. Frank Javier Garcia Berumen, Exclusive for “El Magonista” ~ December 15, 2020 Photo credit: Solitary Watch Native American activist Leonard Peltier has served 44 years in Federal Prison. In the 1977 trial, which was almost universally recognized as controversial, he was given two consecutive life sentences for the ... -
What Americans don’t know about Latino history could fill a museum
By STEPHEN PITTI, LOS ANGELES TIMES ~ DEC. 16, 2020 On Thursday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) blocked a bipartisan congressional effort to establish a new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino, declaring that “the last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation with an array of segregated, ... -
Who will teach Ethnic Studies?
California State University will require students to take ethnic studies, but the faculty and system remain divided over how to put the new requirement into place. By Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher-Ed – Nov. 24, 2020 Months after California State University’s new ethnic studies requirement was signed into law, the debate ... -
“In Memory of the Legendary Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones: Chicano Scholar, Activist and Poet”
“Anti-Mexicanism is a form of nativism practiced by colonialists and their inheritors.” —Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones (2017) By Álvaro Huerta, Ph.D., Latino Rebels ~ November 13, 2020 Image Credit: “Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones,” oil on canvas, Salomón Huerta (2018) Tuesday, November 11, 2020—marks one of the saddest days of my life. On ... -
Primera Cátedra de Estudios Chicanos y la Diáspora Mexicana
Primera Cátedra de Estudios Chicanos y la Diáspora Mexicana: “El impacto Histórico de la Revolución Mexicana para el Pueblo Mexicano en Estados Unidos” El viernes 20 de Noviembre de 2020 a partir de las 5 PM hora Estándar del Pacífico (PST), el Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez, Profesor Emérito y Líder ... -
President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation with a message of unity: "Let this grim era ...
By Katie Glueck and Thomas Kaplan, New York Times – Nov. 7, 2020 WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. addressed the nation for the first time as president-elect on Saturday night, delivering a message of unity and trying to soothe the extraordinary divisions that defined the last four years ... -
The Mayas built the first water filtration system in the Americas
By Katherine Kornei, Science Magazine – Nov. 5, 2020 The Maya city of Tikal is famous for its soaring palaces and temples. But something far more humble kept Tikal functioning: its water filtration system, the earliest known of its kind. Researchers recently discovered a volcanic mineral that captures microbes and ...