Oscar Acosta, better known as “The Brown Buffalo,” is a larger than life figure that has fascinated many generations. The documentary The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo, airing March 23 on PBS, ...
“El Chicano” opens deep in the heart of East Los Angeles — or East Los, if you’re local — as a group of Latinx kids watches an act of vigilante justice in their neighborhood. A masked figure frightens ...
As a child, renowned Chicano artist Tony Ortega was fascinated not just by artwork, but by words. Growing up in a bilingual household, his grandparents spoke to him in Spanish, but he often found ...
It was 1997. Joey Terrill was feeling grateful to be alive, but also conflicted about it. The artist had spent the ’80s losing friends and lovers to the ravages of AIDS. In 1989, he had been diagnosed ...
Dr. Mario Garcia smiles during Saturday's event to celebrate his work and legacy. The sixth biannual Sal Castro Memorial Conference at UCSB focuses on the Chicano movement and history of Mexican ...
After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...
In the spring of 1979, Roberto Rodriguez was on assignment for Lowrider Magazine in East Los Angeles. The film “Boulevard Nights,” which dramatized the life of Chicano gangs in the neighborhood, had ...
The Chicano Federation is planning to select 20 fellows for its re-launched Leadership Training Institute program. Photo credit: chicanofederation.org The Chicano Federation of San Diego County is ...
WASTE MANAGEMENT, AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE AT GAS STATIONS. TURNING NOW TO OUR HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH COVERAGE, WE ARE CELEBRATING THE EFFORTS OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN WAS ON A MISSION TO PROMOTE ...
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – A documentary based on Chicano writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is set for release in June and producers hope to get it into schools with Latino and Native American students. Director ...
Families affected by the Jan. 22 flooding in San Diego received help Saturday from the Chicano Federation. Photo credit: @chicanofederation via Instagram The Chicano Federation hosted their annual ...
SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Socorro Gamboa drove from her home in Oxnard to attend the grand opening of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center in Barrio Logan on Saturday and to revisit the mural she ...