Lorna Dee Cervantes, 28, reared in the poverty of what she calls the welfare class of San Jose, said her writing career began one Christmas morning when she found the works of Stevenson, Byron and ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82. Subscribe to read ...

During summers and winters as a kid, Manuel Muñoz worked alongside his family in the farm fields of California’s Central Valley, surrounded by hard labor, poverty and his community’s constant fear 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 ...

Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña lived his life following a simple credo: “If you know something is wrong, you have a duty (not an obligation) to do something about it." From street protests to campus debates, in ...

Lalo Delgado, an activist and poet who was considered el abuelito, or the granddaddy, of the Chicano literature movement for pioneering writing that reflected a commitment to social justice and ...

On a Monday morning in May 2015, artist David Avalos stood on the stage of a packed auditorium at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He described a day in 1977 when white supremacist and former KKK ...

Documents an exhibition of contemporary art traveling to Ikon Gallery, November 18, 1995-January 20, 1996; Camden Arts Centre, February 2-March 10, 1996; Irish Museum of Modern Art, April 24-June 30, ...

NPR's A Martinez talks with Anna Ochoa O'Leary of the University of Arizona about the life and legacy of Chicano writer and activist Roberto Rodriguez, who died on Monday. In 1979, reporter Roberto ...