On March 18, The New York Times published an investigative article alleging Cesar Chavez had sexually abused two adolescent ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A new exhibit now open at the Oakland Museum celebrates the Chicano movement. It was a push for fair treatment, equal opportunity, civil rights and cultural appreciation of ...

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It was 54 years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, when we marched for justice at the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles. It was 122 years after the end of the U.S.- Mexico War, and an estimated 40,000 Chicano/as ...

As National Hispanic Heritage Month gets underway, the city of San Diego on Monday unveiled a new exhibit at City Hall documenting the Chicano Movement. The exhibit is part of the inaugural "Telling ...

The Sí, se puede spirit must mean Yes, we can progress together, so long as we hold ourselves accountable.

Cinco de Mayo isn’t a really popular holiday in Mexico, believe it or not. But since the 1960s, it’s become widely celebrated in the United States due to a civil rights movement called the Chicano ...

On this date 54 years ago, the largest ethnically focussed action in the movement against the Vietnam War took place—offering an important example of the power of a people united. Today, August 29, ...

Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, this book brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in ...

There’s a story about the late Austin artist José Francisco Treviño that some of his friends and family members tell. It’s 1993, and the Mexican American artist, then 52 years old and on a day off ...

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