Latino arts, history and culture
Latinopia Art Carlos and Elsa - Side by Side from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Playing With Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the first major exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to … [Read more...]
Latinopia Art Carlos Almaraz Symbols & Icons from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Playing With Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz is the first major exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to … [Read more...]
Juan Augustín Márquez is the writer and director of the feature length documentary The Last Colony The film explores the complex issue of Puerto Rican national status, Should Puerto Rico continue as a … [Read more...]
The arc of the moral universe is long … Arizonans recently experienced two doses of good news. One was the determination by a federal judge that the banning of Tucson Unified School District’s … [Read more...]
Tierra is the acclaimed Chicano music band founded by brothers Rudy and Steve Salas. The original members of Tierra included Rudy (guitar and vocals), Steve (guitar and vocals), Bobby Navarete … [Read more...]
“Today, the old oak tree in the courthouse square in Goliad provides welcome shade from the south Texas sun. Once, however, it served another, more sinister, purpose. A historical marker reveals that … [Read more...]
Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper. Hay mucho que decir y pocas paginas para compartir. Queremos empezar con un reconocimiento a todos voluntaries que han prestado su tiempo y esfuerzo ayudando a … [Read more...]
Dos asuntos embullen en la parte febril de mi mente. En primer lugar lo ocupa el resurgir del racismo virulento en la cultura norteamericana y las implicaciones que ello tiene para un territorio no … [Read more...]
The writer, photographer and veteran union organizer David Bacon frequently refers to “people who travel with the crops.” He means the agricultural workers who move from place to place to cultivate … [Read more...]
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING In 1888 Rudyard Kipling wrote “The Man Who Would Be King” an “extraordinary social parable” about two British adventurers who, in Keystone Kops fashion, became kings … [Read more...]
A Chicana/o Manifesto on Community Organizing: Reflections of a Scholar-Activist As an urban planning and ethnic studies scholar with an extensive background in community activism—over the past … [Read more...]
"On the Chicana/o Moratorium of 1970: A Legal Historical Inquiry into the Events of the Day and the Death of Ruben Salazar, a Journalist Killed" by Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones. Some while ago, the … [Read more...]
Trump Has Lost Any Semblance of Moral Authority By Luís Torres It’s time to call for Donald Trump to resign the presidency. Given the maniacally egotistic nihilistic that he is, it is of … [Read more...]
Whom would Jesus stand with? One would think that denouncing racism and murder in the service of white supremacy and denouncing those who defend such things would be a super easy call for truly … [Read more...]
THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON LA DEUDA ODIOSA, JOSÉ ANGEL GUTIÉRREZ ON EL MOVIMIENTO, PART THREE, JUAN TEJEDA ON CONJUNTO MUSIC AND TWO CARCAJADAS BY SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ. What up my … [Read more...]
THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: JOSÉ UMPIERRE ON A NATIONAL PROYECT FOR PUERTO RICO, AZTLÁN TO MAGULANDIA AT UC IRVINE, THE WORLD OF MAGULANDIA AND MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES WITH LITTLE RAY … [Read more...]
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