OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A new exhibit now open at the Oakland Museum celebrates the Chicano movement. It was a push for fair treatment, equal opportunity, civil rights and cultural appreciation of ...

Scene where Los Angeles Times journalist Ruben Salazar was killed in Los Angeles, California in 1970. (Raul Ruiz / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) The Library of Congress has ...

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 ...

Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, this book brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in ...

Cinco de Mayo isn’t a really popular holiday in Mexico, believe it or not. But since the 1960s, it’s become widely celebrated in the United States due to a civil rights movement called the Chicano ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — “If you could describe this exhibit in one word, what would that word be?” I asked. “I would say resilience,” said Valerie Jaimes, Executive Director of the Chicano Park Museum and ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. As he was dying of cancer, artist and ...

Dozens of them gathered Jan. 10 in Balboa Park at the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art to celebrate the Inzunza clan’s latest contribution to America’s Finest City: a coffee ...

As National Hispanic Heritage Month gets underway, the city of San Diego on Monday unveiled a new exhibit at City Hall documenting the Chicano Movement. The exhibit is part of the inaugural "Telling ...

On this date 54 years ago, the largest ethnically focussed action in the movement against the Vietnam War took place—offering an important example of the power of a people united. Today, August 29, ...

Dear Mexican: I am a retired gringa living in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Most of us foreigners here are liberal and sympathetic to the immigration problem, which the U.S. Congress refuses to address in a ...