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Tweet We all know Los Angeles as the city of sprawl. Highways, freeways, expressways and cars, lots of cars. It’s a city that truly came of age at a time when American society was rapidly suburbanizing and followed a model of expansive development that effectively left its urban core forgotten and underutilized. Now, thanks to […]

Tweet “..Yo soy Chicano, tengo color,Puro Chicano, hermano con honor.Cuando me dicen que hay revolución, Defiendo a mi raza con mucho valor.  Tengo todita mi gente, Para la revolución.Voy a luchar con los pobres, Pa’ que se acabe el bolón.” We will keep you posted on new developments, but I am excited to see artists […]

Tweet Rest in peace, Tijerina! From the New York Times: Chicano Movement Leader Reies Lopez Tijerina Dies at 88 Reies Lopez Tijerina, a Pentecostal preacher turned activist who led a violent raid of a northern New Mexico courthouse nearly 50 years ago, died Monday. He was 88. Family representative Estela Reyes-Lopez said Tijerina, who helped […]

Tweet January 18, 2015 by salomon Members of a Listserv I subscribe to were recently asked to lobby their respective legislatures to designate the week of February 2-8 as “Chicano History Week.” That week was chosen because the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848, ending the Mexican-American War. With all due […]

Tweet From the LA Times: “Steven Spielberg’s 1998 World War II epic, “Saving Private Ryan,” Joel and Ethan Coen’s cult comedy “The Big Lebowski” and the 1976 drama “Please Don’t Bury Me Alive!” — considered by historians to be the first Chicano feature film — are among the 25 titles added to the National Film […]

Tweet Chicano Cartoonist:  Sergio Hernandez  

Tweet Not this again. Chale Brown Cartoon:  Santa barbara News Press Driver’s License to “Illegals” controversy. By Viva Samuel Ramirez

Tweet Enrique Castillo (Blood In Blood Out, Weeds, Zoot Suit) Photo Credit:  Homebound Another Reason To Revive The Chicano Movement By DeeDee Garcia Blase Homebound is a new independent movie that received numerous awards west of the Mississippi River. It is the story of Richard Lynn, a successful young man who returns to his small […]

Tweet I like your Christ, but… By: Sal Baldenegro Keep Christmas out of the stores? How things change. When I was growing up, religious folks railed against the commercialization of Christmas. They believed and taught that publicly, Christmas was to be celebrated in churches and that personally, the faithful carried Christmas in their hearts, not in […]