500 Years And Puerto Rico Is Still A Colony
500 Years And Puerto Rico Is Still A Colony
By Xavier “Xavi” Luis Burgos My great-grandfather, Marcos Burgos Santiago, died at the age of ninety-nine. His funeral, as my cousin Denise recalled, was larger than life. It seemed as […]
Race Does Exist — In The Way We Treat Each Other
A few days ago, an acquaintance of mine said that “race doesn’t exist.” This honestly was a bit confusing to me. Our entire nation and world are affected by race daily on the […]
How To Dismiss Civil Rights History: A Lesson From NJ
By Marc Morial, OtherWords.org Many prominent conservative politicians are making outrageous statements targeted at minority citizens this campaign season. They’re saying spurious things, like implying that African Americans prefer food stamps […]
500 Years In The Making: The Tejano Monument
By Cindy Casares On Jan. 13, workers finally broke ground on the Texas Capitol site where a 525-square-foot statuary honoring the legacy of Tejanos, or Texans of Mexican and Spanish […]
Tucson Students Walk Out Over Mexican American Studies Ban
High school students in Tucson, Arizona walked out of their classrooms Monday in protest over the ban on Mexican American studies in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) recently. NewsTaco […]
Bien Hecho: LA Students Use Chicano Moratorium As Inspiration
On August 29, 1970 in East Los Angeles, a group of Chicanos got together in order to discuss how to best oppose the Vietnam War; included in the mix were […]
Thanks To Arizona For Making Latinos Invisible In History
Periodically there is a rattling of cages over failures to include a genuine representation of Latinos in U.S. history textbooks and classrooms. The Texas Board of Education has been consistently accused […]
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 […]
Tucson’s Ethnic Studies Program Officially Shut Down
The Tucson Unified School District’s governing board shut down the ethnic studies program — or Mexican American studies — in a meeting Tuesday night. Only one of the five board […]
Aztec, Spanish Cultures Intertwine At LA County Museum Of Art
“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, […]
