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50 years after the Chicano Blowouts, still waiting for justice and the need to reject ...
By Manuel Criollo ~ LA School Report ~ March 6, 2018 Fifty years ago, on March 1st, 1968, several hundred Mexican American and Chicana/o students at Wilson High School initiated ... -
Exhibition of La Raza photos documents Chicano life during the 60’s and 70’s
By Jessica Wolf | UCLA Newsroom ~ December 28, 2017 There are photographs of crowds of people carrying protests signs, determined speakers holding megaphones, streams of people marching down streets of Los ... -
Making Chicano Life Visible
By: Maurice Berger, New York Times ~ Originally published on Sep. 14, 2017 From 1967 to 1977, La Raza, the Los Angeles newspaper turned magazine, provided a vital and dynamic forum for Chicano ... -
On the Chicana/o Moratorium of 1970: A Legal Historical Inquiry into the Events of the ...
By Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones, HuffingtonPost ~ Aug. 19, 2017 Some while ago, the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the Chicana/o Moratorium (August 29, 1970) did loom in people’s minds—memories have quickened ... -
LA RAZA opens September 16, 2017 at The Autry in Griffith Park
The photography of La Raza magazine–images made of, by, and for the greater Chicano Movement–was both witness to and participant in the struggle for social justice as it unfolded across ... -
Why Chicanos Love Fidel Castro But Hate Cuban Exile Politics
By Gabriel San Roman, OC Weekly ~ November 29th, 2016 http://www.ocweekly.com/news/why-chicanos-love-fidel-castro-but-hate-cuban-exile-politics-7705045 Cuban exiles greeted news of Fidel Castro's death this weekend with jubilant celebrations from the streets of Miami to ...