Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado legislators are discussing the creation of a "Chicana/o Power" license plate design. (Courtesy state Rep. Tim Hernández) Coloradans could soon have ...

The Chicano movement of the 1960's and 70's represents the most significant civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican Americans in the United States. The Movement –– El Movimiento –– was part ...

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, ...

The brush-fire that was the nationwide Chicano movement was lit by sparks here in Denver. Fifty years later, the Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center is looking at two events that played a ...

Update June 10, 2024: HB24-1105: Creating the Chicano Special License Plate got final approval in the state legislature in May and was signed into law by the governor in June. A bill to create a ...

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 ...

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Chicano Power is the fall concert for Yjastros. Yjastros is a company of the National Institute of Flamenco that is in residence with UNM. They work there, rehearse there and collaborate with the UNM ...