Bien Hecho: Artists Restore Chicano Murals In San Diego

In San Diego, California, in a place called Chicano Park there are more than 50 murals covering freeway columns that intertwined with the park. A group of artists are currently […]

The Bags was a punk rock group that formed in LA in the 1970s, with Alice Armandariz as the front woman and singer. Her stage name, Alice Bags, has stayed with […]

The LA Weekly  wrote a very interesting piece about Latino surfer Bobby Martinez, his career, his rise through the ranks, as well as his ostensible fall from grace, after criticizing […]

I have always been a baseball fan. I grew up watching on television — when my mom was not watching “Sábado Gigante.” The ritual was always the same: the pre-game show […]

“Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World,” a current exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, represents an intricately choreographed dialogue between several players in pre-Columbian history. Primarily, […]

Rubén Salazar was born in 1928 in Ciudad Juárez,, Mexico. Through his journalism career in El Paso and later Los Angeles, Salazar became the first Mexican-American to cover the Chicano community […]

I remember growing up in Los Angeles, everybody — and I mean everybody — who was cool listens to Ozomatli. For a few years there, the LA-based band was almost […]

Latino organ donors are being recognized at this year’s Rose Parade, on the Donate Life float,  although this year’s floats is co-branded Done Vida (donate life). Five Latino organ donors […]

La Raza Unida Party was established in Crystal City, Texas in 1970 by a group of youth, including José Ángel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, both organizers for the Mexican American Youth Organization. […]

Recently, I found myself wading through sick memories of my Guelito Chente, missing him (since he died in 2006), but also feeling so grateful for having spent a few precious […]