San Antonio-based Chicana punk band Fea has dropped a couple of singles to tease the release of their new album "The Nerve," ...

Today for IWD host Lisa Dettmer talks to guest who celebrate and remember the seminal anthology “Chicana Lesbians: The Girls our Mother Warned us About” which was first published in 1991 and was the ...

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In the late 1970s and 1980s, public radio responded to the needs and interests of local communities often ignored or sidelined by commercial and mainstream media outlets. Radio Cadena, KDNA 91.9 FM, ...

Pulido is chair and professor of ethnic studies at the University of San Diego. He lives in San Diego. Lowriding is freedom! Tiburcio “Toby” Martinez from Amigos Car Club taught me this very important ...

Rodriguez Corona, Ed.D., is director of the Office of Student Equity Programs and Services at Southwestern College District. She lives in City Heights. As a young Chicana activist at San Diego State ...

Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez’s artwork: ‘Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe.’ Yolanda Lopez, CC BY-NC-ND In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the ...

For decades, the Chicana Service Action Center received millions of dollars in taxpayer money to help some of the county’s most disadvantaged residents: the homeless, the unemployed, victims of ...