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Appreciation: The staying power of Joe Kapp’s ‘The Toughest Chicano’ Sports Illustrated cover
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | MAY 8, 2023 | Photo via Assoc. Press The football player on the vintage Sports Illustrated cover looks beat. He’s framed from the chest ... -
East LA commemorates the 52nd Chicano Moratorium
Story by Fight Back! News | AUG. 31, 2022 | Photo by Luis Sifuentes Los Angeles, CA - Over 100 Chicanos and other participants gathered for a rally at Salazar ... -
Hundreds converge on East Los Angeles for 50th anniversary of Chicano Moratorium
By DORANY PINEDA, DOUG SMITH, ALEX WIGGLESWORTH, LOS ANGELES TIMES – AUG. 30, 2020 Several hundred marchers and dozens of tricked-out cars converged on an East Los Angeles park Saturday to commemorate ... -
Half a century after the death of Rubén Salazar by the Police, the controversy survives
By: EFE News, Los Angeles, August 28, 2020 The memory and legacy of Mexican journalist Rubén Salazar are still alive 50 years after his death at the hands of Los Angeles ... -
Mexican American Vietnam War vets recall the Chicano Moratorium, 50 years later
By BRITTNY MEJIA, LOS ANGELES TIMES – AUG. 28, 2020 As helicopters and C-130s flew over a mountaintop bunker in Vietnam, an Army soldier flipped through a copy of Time magazine ... -
A LOSS of INNOCENCE
It started as a peace march. But for the Moratorium generation, the day left protesters dismayed, disappointed and angry. By Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times - Aug. 23, 2020 The ... -
A man’s lifelong quest to build his own Chicano library
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 ...
