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, ...
Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Our Lady of Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration. Judith Huacuja, University of Dayton professor of art history, shares the ...
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 ...
In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the bloodied head of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, whom Dallas police had shot for allegedly stealing $8 from a vending ...
A brightly colored Chicana/o themed license plate is now among options available to Coloradans for their cars or motorcycles. The plate features a pair of clasped brown hands with mountains and a ...
Mexican. Mexican-American. American. Chicana? Growing up, I never understood what the terminology meant. My parents defined a Chicana/o as someone who lost their heritage, their true Mexican culture: ...
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 ...
More than 40 years ago, a small group of Chicana women religious gathered in Houston to air grievances of race, gender and class discrimination against the Roman Catholic Church. They called ...
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 ...
“Students work on the mural during the painting of the mural in the Yolo County Juvenile Detention Facility on Wednesday May 23, 2014 in Woodside, CA. After the staff and inmates were interviewed, the ...
At 21, Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez worked as a clerk, translator and researcher for the newly formed United Nations. As part of her duties, the recent college graduate read reports published by ...
(The Conversation) — In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the bloodied head of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, whom Dallas police had shot for allegedly stealing $8 ...