Scene where Los Angeles Times journalist Ruben Salazar was killed in Los Angeles, California in 1970. (Raul Ruiz / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) The Library of Congress has ...

The Huntington in San Marino is presenting the West Coast debut of a deeply impactful exhibition of six decades of Chicano ...

After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, this book brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in ...

Cinco de Mayo isn’t a really popular holiday in Mexico, believe it or not. But since the 1960s, it’s become widely celebrated in the United States due to a civil rights movement called the Chicano ...

Espinosa is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in San Diego and a member of the Board of Directors of the Media Arts Center San Diego, the organization behind the San Diego Latino Film ...

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As National Hispanic Heritage Month gets underway, the city of San Diego on Monday unveiled a new exhibit at City Hall documenting the Chicano Movement. The exhibit is part of the inaugural "Telling ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — “If you could describe this exhibit in one word, what would that word be?” I asked. “I would say resilience,” said Valerie Jaimes, Executive Director of the Chicano Park Museum and ...

During Hispanic Heritage Month, many proudly celebrate their culture, diversity and heritage. Others take advantage of this month to highlight their identity, as is the case of Adolfo "Zarco" Guerrero ...