That narrative held until Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña intervened in 1972, reshaping the writing of history and a generation’s ...

Audition for ANTIGONE & SPEAKING IN TONGUES Equity Principal Actors at Latino Theater Company in Los Angeles CA 05/26 ...

He is the author of "Soldiers and Kings," the 2024 winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction about human smugglers and ...

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

One of the first activists to call herself “Chicana,” largely used as a pejorative at the time, Elizabeth Martinez came to define the movement’s voice. Former Reporter/Editor Pioneering Chicana ...

Stephen Swift, a two-time cancer survivor, began his cross-country bike ride in 2012 after losing his wife to cancer.

Criselda Vasquez's parents posing in front of the artist's painting “The New American Gothic” (2017) (photo courtesy the artist) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained the father and ...

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One of the many tools of the farmworker movement in the 1960s was Teatro Campesino, a traveling theater troupe that told the plight of the farmworkers through “actos,” or short skits. Why it matters: ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This spring, Chicana women throughout the metro will be celebrated at ¡Viva La Chicana! 2026. The event is hosted by Latinx Education Collaborative, RevED KC, and Chicano Center for ...

This post was updated March 19 at 10:45 a.m. UCLA’s Chicana/o studies department unanimously voted Wednesday afternoon to remove César E. Chávez from its name following sexual abuse allegations ...