Four leaders of the Brown Berets (from left, Fred Lopez, David Sanchez, Carlos Montes, and Ralph Ramirez) in 1968. Previously known as Young Chicanos for Community Action, the group advocated for ...

Jennifer Andrea Porras, now 53, says they were sexually abused by the union leader as a teen ...

All around, in their family and in their community, Irie Zepeda ”]saw people making things. They remember their mom always drawing in her notebook, and their uncles were deep in the practice of ...

Artists, filmmakers, and singers once championed Cesar Chavez as a hero. But now the late union organizer has been discredited — after revelations that he sexually abused two minors in the 1970s and ...

Thump Records is celebrating its 36th anniversary with a new music festival series. The first event, Mojave Music Festival, will take place in Victorville, California. The festival will feature over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bill Walker knows good music. Founder of East Side Story Label and Thump Records, Walker, 71, has devoted his professional life to ...

Linda and Carlos LeGerrette represent the legacy of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 70s in San Diego. Beginning as students at Mesa and San Diego State, they were in the forefront of that ...

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles: A peaceful protest by thousands of Chicanos against the Vietnam War that people who were there say ended in violence by law ...

55 years ago, young Chicano activists took to the streets to proclaim, “our fight is in the barrio, not Vietnam.” Their protest still resonates to this day. An image from the 1971 film Chicano ...

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Santa Ana is celebrating Chicano heritage on Sunday, hosting a festival with headline performances by iconic 1960s Latin rock and soul bands Thee Midniters and El Chicano. The festival, in its fourth ...

Iron Fist debuted in Marvel Comics in 1974, an answer to the kung-fu movie craze that had taken the world by storm. The first Iron Fist in Marvel Comics was Danny Rand, a white American boy whose ...