Murillo, a substitute teacher and graduate student, is the nephew of Roberto “Tex” Murillo, for whom the library at the new ...
An activist in the academy, he wrote a foundational text in the field, “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos.” It is still in print and still assigned to students. By Trip Gabriel Rodolfo F. Acuña, ...
Updated March 26, 2026 at 10:25 AM PDT Artists, filmmakers, and singers once championed Cesar Chavez as a hero. But now the late union organizer has been discredited — after revelations that he ...
Cars, Chicanos and a whole lot of soul. That's what California photographer Art Meza and Florida publisher and editor Santino J. Rivera teamed up to put on the pages of their new book, Lowriting: ...
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 ...
Courtesy Aguila’s upcoming book “Menudo Sunday,” is a bilingual counting picture book for children that follows a young girl and her family during a traditional Sunday meal. “When I was a kid, I 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 ...
BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — At the end of a school day at Beaverton High, a group of students gather and begin shaking cans of spray paint. They’re here at the bi-weekly, no-credit class to learn how to ...
LOGAN, Utah — The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University is presenting Artepaño: Chicano Prisoner Kerchief Art, the most diverse artepaño exhibition to date, featuring 71 artworks ...
The Old Orange County Courthouse is hosting “The Chicano Collection,” or “La Colección Chicana,” a free art exhibit showcasing Chicano artists and cities from 1969 to 2001. The display will be up ...
A Chicano-band based in the Salinas Valley, called Flaco El Jandro, recently released recordings in hopes of winning National Public Radio’s 2024 Tiny Desk Contest. Winners of the contest have a ...
SAN DIEGO - APRIL 22: Guillermo Rosette, a dancer with Toltecas en Aztlan(CQ) dance group, blows into a conch shell during a dance performance at the Chicano Park Heritage Festival April 22, 2006 in ...