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Chicano
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Highland Park
Departures
Civil Rights Awakening
Post date:A multi-faceted group of Chicano and Chicana activists emerged during the 1960s and 1970s, spurred on by the United Farm Workers, the Black Civil Rights movement and the struggle against the Vietnam War.
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son jarocho
SoCal Focus
Veracruz' Little Guitar Grows Big in Southern California
Post date:I'd like to be there in a pre-dawn concert as a yet unborn jarana player plugs in his wood instrument and plays the Star Spangled Banner to welcome the new day.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Believe
Post date:Los Lobos, Lysa Flores, and Alice Bag... great East L.A. Chicano rockers or great American rockers?
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Departures
Que Hubo Jose te Manda Saludos La Lindsey, a Poem by Lindsey Haley
Post date:In honor of National Poetry Month, "Que Hubo Jose te Manda Saludos La Lindsey", a poem Lindsey Haley.
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L.A. Unified School District
SoCal Focus
Board
Post date:Luis Sanchez is a supporter of charter schools and other non-traditional school models to improve learning in L.A. Unified. He agrees with incoming Superintendent John Deasy that teachers who don't cut it should be out of the educational system.
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Mammoth
SoCal Focus
Slide
Post date:My yearly ski trip to Mammoth last week prompted me to wonder about the Chicano analysis of skiing and the Owens Valley.
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gangs
Departures
Luis Rodriguez: East L.A. and the Los Angeles River
Post date:Luis Rodriguez, a Los Angeles native and writer, sees the Los Angeles River as a public forum for the exchange of art and ideas.
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Chicano
Departures
Artist Profile: Diane Gamboa
Post date:Diane Gamboa's photographs and commentary provide a window into the explosive energy of the East Los Angeles music scene of the early 1980s.
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Chicano
Commentary
Allude
Post date:He's an acrobat of words, hard-wired from his infancy in Mexico City to reject a singular definition and instead see each palabra as a fork in the road, with multiple paths to leapfrog, skip, duel with, embrace, kiss, or pass up.
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Chicano
Departures Field Guides
Public Art in Chinatown and El Pueblo
Post date:Los Angeles loves its art, and the areas of Chinatown and El Pueblo are a testament to that.
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Mexican Revolution
Commentary
Soldier
Post date:Talking to Elena Poniatowska about In regards to the women there's little to nothing about their contributions. It's always important to talk about forgotten people, people who have not been taken into account, people who've given their lives.
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community
Departures
Lindsey Haley - Chicano Poet and Activist
Post date:Lindsey Haley was raised in Venice, her family part of the Chicano wave that took roots on the Westside during the 1960s and 1970s
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Chicano
Commentary
Elect
Post date:Latinas now make up nearly half of L.A. Unified's board of education! I was oblivious to the obvious in the school district press room while covering the new board's swearing in on Wednesday.
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Chicano
Commentary
Pluck
Post date:A little guitar from Veracruz could save the Chicano movement.