AUSTIN — Compared to cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, or San Diego, Austin is not often considered an important hub for the Chicano Movement or Chicano artmaking. But a new exhibition at the ...
The moment the band kicked it off in the studio, singer Johnny Hernandez felt as if time stood still. Back in the early 1960s, he recorded a cover of the Radiants' soulful classic “Ain’t No Big Thing” ...
SAN ANTONIO — An exhibit at the Contemporary at Blue Star highlights the past, present and future of Chicano and Chicana culture, right down to its modernized name: “Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers.” ...
Daniel Chacón's latest short story collection, The Last Philosopher in Texas, shows how fiction and superstition often mix with reality in the lives of many Chicanos. Chacón is originally from Fresno ...
Activist Diana Serna Aguilera (right) speaks alongside Latricia Davis, director of education, during a discussion about the Crystal City walkout at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, ...
Last week, the Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas reenacted a landmark event in Mexican-American civil-rights history: the Crystal City Walkout of 1969. The all-Chicano drama spotlights the valiant students ...
In 1977, a handsome young veteran named Jose Campos Torres was arrested at a Houston cantina after getting into a fight. Police hauled him, still drunk and angry, to a remote parking lot along Buffalo ...
DALLAS — Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, an award-winning Texas author who in the 1970s began writing a series of novels that told the stories of people living in a fictional county along the Texas-Mexico ...