‘We the People’ exhibit centers Chicano life at Riverside’s Cheech ...

As a child, renowned Chicano artist Tony Ortega was fascinated not just by artwork, but by words. Growing up in a bilingual household, his grandparents spoke to him in Spanish, but he often found ...

Dr. Mario Garcia smiles during Saturday's event to celebrate his work and legacy. The sixth biannual Sal Castro Memorial Conference at UCSB focuses on the Chicano movement and history of Mexican ...

It was 1997. Joey Terrill was feeling grateful to be alive, but also conflicted about it. The artist had spent the ’80s losing friends and lovers to the ravages of AIDS. In 1989, he had been diagnosed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1979, Roberto Rodriguez was on assignment for Lowrider Magazine in East Los Angeles. The film “Boulevard Nights,” ...

After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

Actor and Chicano art collector Cheech Marin stands with the recently unveiled "Meet Me At the Cheech" statue by Ignacio Gómez. (all photos by Carlos Puma, courtesy the Riverside Art Museum and the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A documentary based on a memoir by Chicano poet Jimmy Santiago Baca is set to debut. “A Place to Stand” is scheduled to be screened in Santa Fe on Saturday and follows the life of ...

In the spring of 1979, Roberto Rodriguez was on assignment for Lowrider Magazine in East Los Angeles. The film “Boulevard Nights,” which dramatized the life of Chicano gangs in the neighborhood, had ...