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BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 5.08.16 ” A WRITERS LIFE – PART ONE”

The best way to start this piece is with a caveat that we’re all writers. Just as we’re all speakers (of whatever language), we’re all writers (of whatever language)—with the exception of those who … [Read more...]

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May 8, 2016 by JT

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELÍPE 3.06.16 “THE FRYING PAN AND THE FIRE: IRAN & THE ISIS THREAT”

THE FRYING PAN AND THE FIRE: IRAN AND THE ISIS THREAT “Decisions about national security are ours to make . . . that’s not simply our inheritance, it’s our responsibility” -Rachael Maddow, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Bravo Road with Don Felípe Tagged With: Bravo Road with Don Felipe, Dr. Philip De Ortego y Gasca, Lone Wolf Terrorists, San Bernardino Terrorist attack, Terrorism in the United States, the ISIS threat

March 6, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELÍPE 2.08.16 “MEXICAN PROYECTA 100,000”

  In 2014 there were 14,000 Mexican students studying in American colleges and universities. In an effort to improve that number, the Mexican government approved Proyecta 100,000—a goodwill … [Read more...]

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February 8, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 1.17.16 ” OF CATHEDRALS AND LEARNING”

I could not have known my search for America would begin at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1946 fresh from wartime service in the Marine Corps I went back to Pittsburgh where I had enlisted in 1943 … [Read more...]

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January 17, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 11.22.15 ‘GROWING OLD IN AMERICA”

GROWING OLD IN AMERICA: MEMORY AND THE GERIATRIC UNIVERSE Growing old in America is no easy matter. Worse still when age ravages one’s memory with Alzheimer’s disease or other memory … [Read more...]

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November 20, 2015 by JT

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELÍPE 11.10.14 “SEARCHING FOR AMERICA”

SEARCHING FOR AMERICA: LIVING ON THE MARGIN OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Before there was American literature in my life there was Mexica literature then a host of books from foreign countries in … [Read more...]

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November 10, 2014 by Breht Burri

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 8.10.14 “STEM,MASSH & p&t”

STEM,MASSH  & p&t : WITHER GOEST THOU? This piece is really a continuation of my work on the History and Philosophy of Education (Scribd 2009) in which I sought to lay out an easy guide to … [Read more...]

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August 10, 2014 by

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 10.04.15 “LOST IN THE STARS”

LOST IN THE STARS: CHICANOS AND THE LATINO GALAXY A dozen years ago I wrote: Ideologically, Mexican American Chicanos say the term Hispanic [now Latino] diminishes their demo-graphic priority … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Bravo Road with Don Felípe Tagged With: Bravo Road with Don Felipe, Dr. Philip De Ortego y Gasca, Hispanic versus Latino, What does "hispanic" mean

September 30, 2015 by Breht Burri

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 4.19.15 “A MODEST PROPOSAL”

A MODEST PROPOSAL There was a time when most Americans and most American educators believed that the purpose of American education was to prepare students for life. Alas, life has become more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Bravo Road with Don Felípe Tagged With: Bravo Road with Don Felipe, Dr. Philip De Ortego y Gasca, Public Education, public education and the workforce, the future of America

April 19, 2015 by Breht Burri

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELÍPE 5.11.14 “HOW WE GOT HERE FROM THERE”

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD: HOW WE GOT HERE FROM THERE. At the outset let me say that as Chicanos we did not get here by turning the other cheek or by rolling over like good lap dogs for the … [Read more...]

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May 11, 2014 by

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELÍPE 7.12.15 “ON LEADERSHIP”

It’s not the 3 years I served in the Marines (Sergeant) during World War II (American, Pacific, and China theaters) nor the 10 years I served in the Air Force (Reserve Major) as a Threat Analyst in … [Read more...]

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July 12, 2015 by

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 6.14.15 “ON LANGUAGE AND WRITING”

I’ve been a life-long student of languages moreso since my matriculation as a comparative studies major at the University of Pittsburgh from 1948 to 1952. That major included study of modern forms of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Bravo Road with Don Felípe Tagged With: Bravo Road with Don Felipe, Dr. Philip De Ortego y Gasca, On writing and Language

June 14, 2015 by

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 3.29.15 “A MORE PERFECT UNION?”

A MORE PERFECT UNION—DOES IT INCLUDE HISPANICS? Like ever other y country in the world, the United States is a work in progress. Every day the nation confronts new and unique problems, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Bravo Road with Don Felípe Tagged With: A More Perfect Union, Antonio Zambrano Montes, Brave Road with Don Felipe, Dr. Philip De Ortego y Gasca, Ferguson, Missorui, Race Relations in the US

March 29, 2015 by Tia Tenopia

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 2.09.15 “RESTORING GERONIMO”

RESTORING GERONIMO’S NAME AND PLACE IN THE ANNALS OF AMERICAN HISTORY Consciousness about my Apache Indian roots came to me late in my life not because I sought to occlude or exclude them but … [Read more...]

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February 9, 2015 by Tia Tenopia

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 7.13.14 “DISCRIMINATION”

GUISES AND DISGUISES OF DISCRIMINATION. Discrimination functions on three levels, (1) the cognitive, (2) the emotional, and (3) the behavioral, manifest in forms oftentimes hard to detect. In … [Read more...]

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July 13, 2014 by Breht Burri

BRAVO ROAD WITH DON FELÍPE 6.09.14 “THE MEXICAN DIXON LINE”

AMERICAN HISPANICS AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE: THE MEXICAN DIXON LINE AND NATIONAL AMNESIA -THE CHICANO EXPERIENCE According to an Epigraph by Brenda Payton to “Who’s the Leader of the Civil … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Bravo Road with Don Felípe Tagged With: Bravo Road with Don Felipe, Dr. Philip De Ortego y Gasca, Hispanic Civil Rights, Mexican American Civil Rights, the Chicano Experience, the Mexican Dixon Line

June 9, 2014 by Breht Burri

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 4.13.14 “LATINO JAZZ”

IN A MELLOW MOOD: ME, MRS. LUCY AND LATINO JAZZ. __________________________________________________________ Recently, I attended a jazz concert that stirred many memories of my days as a jazz … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Bravo Road with Don Felípe Tagged With: Bravo Road with Don Felipe, Dr. Philip De Ortego y Gasca, Latin Jazz, reflections on Latin Jazz, What's New

April 13, 2014 by Breht Burri

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Latino Sculptor Jesús Moroles Remembered Born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950, Jesús Bautista Moroles, the renowned Mexican American artist and sculptor, created a name for himself through his brilliant monumental abstract granite works. At the time of his sudden and tragic death in 2014, Moroles had completed more than 2,000 granite sculptures worldwide which […]

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Latina Artists Take Texas Culture to New York City The Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery in New York City presents Vast and Varied: Texan Women Painters, a group exhibition that includes works by Marta Sánchez , Eva Marengo Sánchez , and Ethel Shipton. The exhibit will be on view at the gallery from June 12 to August […]

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Bienvenidos a La Voz Newspaper. As you know, there are so many things going on all around us today. The Trump administration is moving quickly to remake America into a vision that he believes will take us into the future, but the real question is who is “us”? The Make America Great Again movement doesn’t […]

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