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Reflecting on the Chicano Movement and the local people who made significant contributions
By Paula Espinosa | San Diego Union-Tribune | Mar. 14, 2024 | Photo By Eduardo Contreras Celebrating its 31st year, the San Diego Latino Film Festival is back to captivate ... -
How 1968 East L.A. Student Walkouts Ignited the Chicano Movement
Thousands of Mexican American students participated in the 'Blowout,' the first urban, youth-led protest of the burgeoning Chicano civil rights crusade. By Antonio Mejias-Rentas | History | Aug. 17, 2023 ... -
L.A. Rep. Esteban Torres dies at 91
The eight-term Congressman was a champion and icon of Chicano Civil Rights and the moment that it spurned in the late 1960s. By Ruben Vives | LATimes | JAN. 27, ... -
Altamed’s COVID response in the Latino community and Book “Chicano Boom”
Hispanics have been disproportionately hurt by the coronavirus pandemic due to their jobs as essential workers and multigenerational living conditions. In California, Latinos represent 60% of Covid cases and nearly ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Ruben Salazar Trail: A Reporter’s Journey
By: Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times – August 23, 2020 The fax machine beeped and screeched as it transmitted a two-page document to the FBI. I was a low-level ... -
Ruben Salazar: The man behind the myth
By Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times – August 23, 2020 On Sept. 16, 1970, during a celebration of the 160th anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain, a group of young ...