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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1979, Roberto Rodriguez was on assignment for Lowrider Magazine in East Los Angeles. The film “Boulevard Nights,” ...

Armando Vazquez-Ramos, the founder and leader of the Chicano movement in Long Beach, was described as a leader, trailblazer, mentor, inspiration and aspiration by many who knew him during a ...

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 ...