LATINOPIA SPECIAL HOPE IN DARK TIMES
Hope In Dark Times from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. What can we do to combat the onslaught of the Trump presidency? Fight back! … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT PUERTO RICO’S ECONOMIC CRISIS – ONE
Latinopia Event Puerto Rico's Crisis One from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Facing massive unemployment and a poverty rate of 40%, Puerto Rico declared it could not pay its $72 billion debt in 2017. Juan … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1949 BOWIE BEARS 2
The 1940s was a time when segregation still reigned in Texas and the South. In 1949, a baseball team made up of Mexican Americans kids from Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas, surprised sports fans … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1949 BOWIE BEARS
In 1949, the Bowie Bears baseball team, comprised of Mexican American students at Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas won the statewide baseball championship. The players came from poor working … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1968 “L.A. THIRTEEN” ARRESTED
Latinopia Event 1968 L.A. Thirteen Arrested from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. The 1968 East Los Angeles High School Walk-Outs are recognized as the impetus for the National Chicano Civil Rights … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1968 EAST LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL WALKOUTS-LEGACY
Latinopia Event 1968 ELA Walkouts Legacy from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. On March 1, 1968, thousands of students walked out of five predominantly Mexican American high schools in East Los Angeles. … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1968 ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
Robert Francis Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968. The brother of President John F. Kennedy, Robert had just been nominated by the … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2017 DACA RESCINDED
Latinopia Event 2017 DACA Rescinded from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In September of 2017, President Obama rescinded the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program originally initiated by … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT HARVEST OF EMPIRE
Latinopia Event Harvest of Empire from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. The illegal entry of Latinos to the United States has been characterized as a problem of their doing, "bad hombres" invading the … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2009 ACTIVIST REUNION 2
The Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was in response to decades of discrimination and social inequality experienced by the Mexican American community in the Untied States. The … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2009 CHICANO ACTIVIST REUNION 3
In this third and final report on the 2009 reunion of Chicano Movement activists, convened in Dallas, Texas and attended by hundreds of activists, we hear from reunion organizer José Angel Gutíerrez … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1949 ROYBAL ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL
Latinopia Event Roybal Elected to City Council from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In 1949, Edward Roybal was the first Mexican American to be elected to the Los Angeles City Council in more than 100 … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT – 1972 OCCUPIED AMERICA IS PUBLISHED
Latinopia Event 1972 Occupied America Published from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In 1972, Dr. Rodolfo Acuña published his landmark history book, Occupied America, A History of Chicanos. Within a short … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA ON PACHUCOS
Latinopia History Montoya on Pachucos from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In this excerpt from the documentary Visions of Aztlán, acclaimed poet and artist José Montoya recalls the scapegoating of … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1967 CON SAFOS 2
Con Safos Magazine, a daring and irreverant literary magazine featuring the writings of Latino authors was first published in 1967 under the stewardship of Ralph "Rafas" López and Arturo "Tudi" … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1968 CON SAFOS 1
Today we take for granted the large body of Latino and Latina literature available in the United States. But back in 1960, there was no extensive body of literature to speak of. That all changed when … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1861 APACHE WARS 1
LATINOPIA EVENT THE APACHE WARS1 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. The encounter between the Apache people and American troops is one of the most violent and devastating chapters in American history. … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1967 TIERRA AMARILLA COURTHOUSE RAID
In 1967, lay preacher and land grant activist Reies López Tijerina founded the Alliance of Free Pueblos in the state of New Mexico. His goal was to return ownership of contested land grants to the … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2012 ANAYA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
On April 20, 2012, acclaimed Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya was awarded the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award by the Los Angeles Times. This award recognizes a lifetime of achievement by a living … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENTS 1937 PONCE MASSACRE
Following the conclusion of the Spanish American War in 1898, the island of Puerto Rico became a colony of the United States. Soon nationalists like Luis Muñoz Marin and Pedro Albizu Campos were … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1930 LEMON GROVE INCIDENT
In 1930, the all-white school board of Lemon Grove, California voted to build a separate schoolhouse for children of Mexican descent. This provoked a community response, a boycott of the "Mexican … [Read more...]