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 ...
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 ...
AI‑generated writing is suddenly everywhere. And it’s getting harder to detect. It was 18th‑century writer Samuel Johnson who famously said that “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” ...
We are drowning in a sea of abysmal, artificially generated prose. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s seeping into inboxes, infecting publications and ruining the internet (again). A favorite ...
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 ...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...
This is the English version of this podcast episode. Haga clic aquí para escuchar en español. The 1960s was the start of the Chicano movement: El Movimiento. Activists like César Chávez and Dolores ...
There is a certain something about Chicano-style motorcycle builds that always gets me dreamy. It may have to do with the shapes of the massive fenders that go over both wheels, or with the very ...
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 ...