In the late 1970s and 1980s, public radio responded to the needs and interests of local communities often ignored or sidelined by commercial and mainstream media outlets. Radio Cadena, KDNA 91.9 FM, ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. One of the many tools of the ...

Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez’s artwork: ‘Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe.’ Yolanda Lopez, CC BY-NC-ND In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the ...

Rodriguez Corona, Ed.D., is director of the Office of Student Equity Programs and Services at Southwestern College District. She lives in City Heights. As a young Chicana activist at San Diego State ...

My family was nothing out of the ordinary when I was growing up. My parents came to the US in their teens from their respective homes in Mexico, crossing the border illegally, only to become US ...

Mexican. Mexican-American. American. Chicana? Growing up, I never understood what the terminology meant. My parents defined a Chicana/o as someone who lost their heritage, their true Mexican culture: ...

Today for IWD host Lisa Dettmer talks to guest who celebrate and remember the seminal anthology “Chicana Lesbians: The Girls our Mother Warned us About” which was first published in 1991 and was the ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (3TV/CBS 5) - The Super Bowl is just 21 days away in the Valley! For Lucinda “La Morena” Hinojos, it’s an incredibly special opportunity. Born and raised in the Phoenix-area, Hinojos ...

This story is the second in a Friday series from LA Public Press and Q Voice News exploring untold queer histories in LA for LGBTQ+ History Month. Butch Chicana lesbian Nancy Valverde was a pioneering ...

One of the many tools of the farmworker movement in the 1960s was Teatro Campesino, a traveling theater troupe that told the plight of the farmworkers through “actos,” or short skits. It was a mostly ...