Latino arts, history and culture
Introduction to the Draft Blueprint for the Next 50 Years The attached document derives from the panel on Chicanismo in the Americas held November 17, 2018, during the conference commemorating … [Read more...]
Bert Corona was a pioneering Chicano labor, civil rights and immigrant rights leader who passed away in 2001. Throughout a labor activist career that goes back to the 1930s, he worked with nearly … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event Founding of LULAC from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In 1929, three Texas civic groups, the Order of the Sons of America, the Knights of America and the League of Latin American citizens … [Read more...]
This Moment in Time is quite extraordinary. It is a photo of President John F. Kennedy visiting a reunion of the Houston League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in Houston, Texas on October … [Read more...]
CONGRESSIONAL LETTER TO PUERTO RICAN OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT BOARD. CONTEXT: In 2016 Congress created PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act) and appointed a … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE THE PORVENIR MASSACRE One of the most horrendous of extra-judicial killings took place on January 28, 1918 in the outskirts of the village of Porvenir, Texas, … [Read more...]
On the evening of January 28, 1918, a dozen Texas rangers, accompanied by eight U.S. Calvary soldiers and some Anglo American ranch hands descended on the village of Porvenir,Texas, just north of the … [Read more...]
THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA FACTS AND ROOTS Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States of America, defined as property but not part of that nation. As such Puerto Ricans … [Read more...]
On July 4, 2019 Dr. Frank Meza, a sports enthusiast and respected leader in the medical community, passed away. He had attended Cal State Northridge, UCLA and UC Davis where he earned his medical … [Read more...]
Political activist, photo-journalist and educator Dr. Raul Ruíz passed away on June 13, 2019. He is perhaps best remembered for the photos he took of the police assault on the Silver Dollar Bar on … [Read more...]
José Ángel Gutiérrez is an author, scholar and political activist best known as the founder of the La Raza Unida political party. His most recent book is The Eagle Has Eyes: The FBI Surveillance of … [Read more...]
In 1970, the Mexican American communities of Tucson, Arizona, came together to fight for a public park for the children of two of the poorest barrios in the city. What began as a struggle for a local … [Read more...]
CONTEXT: In 2016 Congress created PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act) and appointed a seven-member commission (known in Puerto Rico as La Junta) to administer a … [Read more...]
In 1966, Chicano activist Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales created a community based civil rights organization called the Crusade for Justice. Corky was disillusioned by traditional government agencies that … [Read more...]
CONTEXT: By the mid-1960s unrest was building in the Mexican American communities throughout the United States in response to decades of discrimination and abuse. The high school walk-outs in East … [Read more...]
March 27-31, 1969 PREAMBLE TO PLAN DE AZTLÁN PROGRAM OF EL PLAN DE AZTLÁN CONTEXT: In March of 1969, Chicano activist leader Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales convened a National Youth Liberation … [Read more...]
Latinos and Latinas today take gender equality as a given. But in the early days of the Chicano Movement for Civil Rights of the1960s and 1970s, Chicana women activists were often the unrecognized … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event 2018 Gutiérrez on El Movimiento 3 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Forty years after the electoral victories of the all-Latino La Raza Unida political party, the founder of the group, … [Read more...]
PUERTO RICO'S DEBT CRISIS On June 28, 2015 the Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla, announced that the $72 billion debt owed by the Commonwealth to its creditors was unpayable. … [Read more...]
In March of 1969, 15oo Mexican American youth rallied at Denver's Crusade for Justice under the leadership of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez. They proclaimed a "Chicano" identity and , inspired by the need … [Read more...]
Ramiro Muñiz Ramiro Muñiz, known as Ramsey Muñiz (born December 13, 1942), is a formerly incarcerated Hispanic political activist who ran for governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974, each time as the … [Read more...]
