Felicia Gallegos Pettis as Kitayama Carnation Strike leader Lupe Briseño in "Chicano Power 1969: The Birth of a Movement." Photo by Steven Abeyta The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life ...

BARRIO LOGANBARRIO LOGAN — In the shadow of the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, on the same patch of ground where a community of poor families and immigrants was cleaved by the government in the name of ...

A new book, however, demonstrates that El Movimiento was much more diverse and dynamic than the casual history recounts. “Rewriting the Chicano Movement: New Histories of Mexican American Activism in ...

Long before Colorado was Colorado, Indigenous tribes lived on the land, then Spanish settlers arrived. The Mexican War of Independence fought in the early 1800s meant they became Mexican citizens.

Su Teatro is premiering a new play featuring recordings of some of the lesser known heroes of the Chicano movement. The multi-media production "What We Lived Here: The Movimiento Years" challenges ...

The brush-fire that was the nationwide Chicano movement was lit by sparks here in Denver. Fifty years later, the Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center is looking at two events that played a ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Preservation efforts for Chicano/Chicana murals across Colorado are receiving a major boost moving forward. On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation included ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Baca is president of the Committee on Chicano Rights (CCR), and lives in National City. Long forgotten by U.S. history and barely remembered by many (even in the Chicano community) is the anniversary ...

To the editor: The Chicano Moratorium was indeed an inflection point in the consciousness among Mexican Americans of their place in America. It certainly was for me on that infamous day in East Los ...