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Column: San Bernardino judge reenacts the 1944 case that let Mexicans use the swimming pool
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | SEP. 18, 2022 | Photo by Robert Gauthier They sent out the hard-shell tacos on Thursday at Mitla Café the same way ... -
The complicated relationship between Mexican Americans and the L.A. Dodgers
A new Smithsonian book and an upcoming exhibition, ‘¡Pleibol!,’ recounts the singular importance of baseball in Latino history and culture. By Priscilla Leiva, SMITHSONIANMAG – OCTOBER 22, 2020 Since the ... -
Ruben Salazar: Reading into a Prophetic Reporter
By: Gustavo Orellano, Los Angeles Times – Aug. 23, 2020 About 20 years ago, I visited a Chicano bookstore in Santa Ana to buy “Border Correspondent,” a greatest-hits compilation of pioneering Los ... -
Overlooked No More: Jovita Idár, Who Promoted Rights of Mexican-Americans and Women
By: Jennifer Medina ~ The New York Times ~ August 7, 2020 As a teacher, writer, editor and activist, Idár preserved Mexican culture in South Texas and encouraged women to ... -
The real star of Showtime’s new series? L.A.’s neglected Mexican and Chicano history
By Yolanda Machado, Los Angeles Times – April 26, 2020 Segregation. Racism. Nazis infiltrating local government. Even for many Angelenos, the popular conception of city’s history leaves out its darkest aspects. ... -
Latinopia Event 1969 El Plan de Santa Barbara
By: Tia Tenopia ~ Latinopia ~ February 17, 2019 Latinopia Event 1969 Plan de Santa Bárbara from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In March of 1969, 15oo Mexican American youth rallied at ... -
Despite how the Census Bureau now treats it, "Hispanic/Latino" is not a race
By Esther J. Cepeda, Denver Post (March 17, 2017) The U.S. Census Bureau has been experimenting with alternate versions of the race and ethnicity section of its National Content Test Research ... -
After a waiter's demand for 'proof of residency,' familiar echoes of discrimination take on new ...
By: Anh Do, Cindy Carcamo, Ruben Vives and Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times ~ March 21, 2017 The wary eye of a salesclerk. A snide comment made by a passerby. A ... -
Robert E. Lee Elementary Renamed After Long Beach Activist with Ties to Cesar Chavez
By Soren Sum, Long Beach Post ~ November 3rd, 2016 http://lbpost.com/news/2000009881-robert-e-lee-elementary-renamed-after-long-beach-activist-with-ties-to-cesar-chavez?utm_source=newsletter_284&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=robert-e-lee-elementary-renamed-after-long-beach-activist-with-ties-to-cesar-chavez&acm=33991_284 In the wake of the deadly Charleston, South Carolina church shooting of black congregation members last year, the Long ... -
Paris Victim Nohemi Gonzalez Was Pursuing Her Dreams in Design
By DAN BILEFSKY | NOV. 19, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/world/europe/paris-terror-attacks-nohemi-gonzalez-cal-state-long-beach.html?_r=1 PARIS — For Nohemi Gonzalez, a bubbly and determined first-generation Mexican-American from California, studying industrial design in Paris was the culmination of ...