A UCLA professor wants to see universities overhaul the way they teach the literature of the West's fastest growing ethnic group: Latinos. KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez reports she's presenting her ideas ...
When Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez took her first teaching job at the University of Wyoming in 2013, an unexpected encounter spurred a project dedicated to documenting family histories through recorded ...
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WASTE MANAGEMENT, AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE AT GAS STATIONS. TURNING NOW TO OUR HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH COVERAGE, WE ARE CELEBRATING THE EFFORTS OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN WAS ON A MISSION TO PROMOTE ...
RIO RANCHO, N.M. -- Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel "Bless Me, Ultima," a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82. Anaya's niece, ...
I grew up in a working-class home, the daughter of a Mexican-American house painter, believing that disadvantaged students deserved a chance at a college education even if their grades and test scores ...
Abelardo Barrientos “Lalo” Delgado died of cancer a couple of weeks ago. His death is a huge casualty to the Chicano community, and not just here in Denver where he lived, but in Texas and New Mexico ...
Oscar Zeta Acosta, a volatile Mexican-American writer who was the real-life inspiration for Hunter S. Thompson's Dr. Gonzo in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," is the focus of a new VOCES/PBS ...
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.
Ngo Cong Binh, a barber in Ho Cho Minh City, cuts a customer's hair. When Nguyen Phuoc Loc first started dabbling in Chicano culture eight years ago, it was simply because he liked the way that the ...