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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Alvarado’s “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez” offers a crash course through the life of its subject, a pioneer of ...

BARRIO LOGANBARRIO LOGAN — In the shadow of the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, on the same patch of ground where a community of poor families and immigrants was cleaved by the government in the name of ...

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 ...

Actor and Chicano art collector Cheech Marin stands with the recently unveiled "Meet Me At the Cheech" statue by Ignacio Gómez. (all photos by Carlos Puma, courtesy the Riverside Art Museum and the ...

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 ...

In 1979, reporter Roberto Rodriguez witnessed police brutality in Los Angeles. And while trying to document it, he was attacked by LA County sheriff's deputies, ending up hospitalized for days. His ...