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Roberto Rodriguez, prolific writer on Chicano life, dies at 69
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 1, 2023 | Photo by Millicent Michelle Pepion In the spring of 1979, Roberto Rodriguez was on assignment for Lowrider Magazine ... -
Column: San Bernardino judge reenacts the 1944 case that let Mexicans use the swimming pool
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | SEP. 18, 2022 | Photo by Robert Gauthier They sent out the hard-shell tacos on Thursday at Mitla Café the same way ... -
A groundbreaking Chicano series, stored 50 years in a garage, reemerges
BY DORANY PINEDA, LA Times, Nov. 7, 2021 Every so often, Frank Cruz would walk into his spacious garage in Laguna Niguel and contemplate the boxes filled with things old and unused: tax returns, ... -
The real star of Showtime’s new series? L.A.’s neglected Mexican and Chicano history
By Yolanda Machado, Los Angeles Times – April 26, 2020 Segregation. Racism. Nazis infiltrating local government. Even for many Angelenos, the popular conception of city’s history leaves out its darkest aspects. ...