The House on Mango Street Goes to Trial: #MayaVsAZ

The House on Mango Street Goes to Trial: #MayaVsAZ

NewsTaco January 9, 2015

*This is important. The legal battle against the Arizona law used to prohibit Mexican-American studies in Tucson will come to a head on January 12, at the Ninth Circuit Court […]

Ring In the Oldies: ‘Happy New Year Baby,’ ‘Sabor A Mi’

Mary Mata December 31, 2012

By Queso Quesem, Pocho Ñews Service It’s 1965 and big hair and girl groups are all the rage. In East L.A., sisters Rosella, Ersi and Mary Arvizu, who had been singing and […]

Latino Civil Rights Figures: Cecilia Denogean Esquer

Mary Mata February 16, 2012

Cecilia Denogean Esquer was an influential Chicana activists from Arizona, who spent her life fighting for Latino rights. Born in Superior, Arizona in 1942, Esquer went from being a high school […]

Happy Friday From Chicana Punk Rockers The Bags!

Mary Mata January 13, 2012

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 Work Of Chicana Artist Yreina D. Cervantez

Mary Mata March 3, 2011

Chicana artist Yreina D. Cervantez is set to have a small exhibition on the Texas border. The exhibition, “Selected Works In Paper” is co-presented by the University of Texas-Pan American […]