Today for IWD host Lisa Dettmer talks to guest who celebrate and remember the seminal anthology “Chicana Lesbians: The Girls our Mother Warned us About” which was first published in 1991 and was the ...

Monica De La Torre, professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, says she is empowered by photos of women in front of microphones. As a guest speaker for Tuesday’s RTVF ...

In the 1960s, women in the United States were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment while Mexican Americans were fighting for racial and economic justice along with Black Americans. Those were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 21, Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez worked as a clerk, translator and researcher for the newly formed United Nations. As part of ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily)—A DJ from Phoenix hopes her story will inspire fellow Chicana women to follow their music dreams. With 2.3 million Latinos in Arizona, the history of immigrants, Mexican Americans ...

In the late 1970s and 1980s, public radio responded to the needs and interests of local communities often ignored or sidelined by commercial and mainstream media outlets. Radio Cadena, KDNA 91.9 FM, ...

Portrait by John Kaine. Acrylic on canvas, 2009. Based on a photograph taken by Margaret Randall Her varying names on the covers also touch on her complicated journey to claim her Latina heritage. As ...

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Rodriguez Corona, Ed.D., is director of the Office of Student Equity Programs and Services at Southwestern College District. She lives in City Heights. As a young Chicana activist at San Diego State ...

People of color have been protesting and fighting for equality for many years. As the Black Lives Matter movement has risen to the forefront of society, stories of activism have begun to spread from ...

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