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By exploring L.A.'s racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' gave birth to Chicano theater
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months ago'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach...
Godfather of Chicano Murals was also an activist, novelist, artist, Teatro Campesino member
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAntonio Bernal was more than “the first Chicano muralist.” Sure, his iconic 1968 mural of farmworker...
Guest column: Carmen Ramirez was 'our champion'
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAt the close of Teatro Campesino’s 1972 film “Los Vendidos/The Sellouts,” originally a play written by Luis Valdez, a menagerie of stereotyped ethnic...
California has new Assembly Speaker after 7 years. Here’s what he said on his first day
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAfter more than seven years and a protracted, fiery succession battle, California finally has a new...
93-year-old civil rights icon celebrates Chicano art with tequila shots in downtown Fresno
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA downtown Fresno night that mixed poetry and history with shots of Tequila Herradura wouldn’t end...
Letters to the Editor: Sleepy Lagoon and L.A. law enforcement's failure to solve a young Latino's...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTo the editor: Gustavo Arellano's column on Jose Diaz — whose killing in 1942 precipitated the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial, a precursor to the following year's Zoot Suit riots — was touching.
Pilgrimage and revolution: How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in landmark farmworkers'...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCesar Chavez salutes the crowd on the steps of the California State Capitol. AP PhotoOn March 31,...
Dolores Huerta's passion for music will be illuminated at CSUN tribute to civil rights activist
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDolores Huerta speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative on Sept. 20 in New York. (Julia Nikhinson /...