By Tonio LeFebre For the Atsihem of the Rio Grande Valley of Southern New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, our struggle to retain cultural identity and linguistic distinction has been a centuries-long […]
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LULAC Calls For A Full Federal Probe Into The Beheading Of A Ft. Bragg Latino Army Specialist While Camping With Seven Other Soldiers
Nation’s Largest and Oldest Latino Civil Rights Organization Urges the FBI and Department of Justice To Enter the Case and Pushes for Doubling the Reward to $100,000 In the Gruesome Decapitation and […]
Elvira ‘Vila’ Villa Escajeda, Champion of Residents in Landmark Chamizal Dispute, Dies at 102
By Alana de Hinojosa Elvira ‘Vila’ Villa Escajeda, who founded the Chamizal Civic Association and successfully mobilized the barrios condemned by the 1964 Chamizal Treaty, died on Sunday at her home in […]
Bowie High School Walkout—1969 Revisited 2
by Alfredo Rangel and María Eugenia Trillo, December, 2021 On Sept. 2-3, 2022, Bowie High School students will commemorate 100 years of the school’s existence. Those attending might remember the walkout of […]
Luis Jimenez : A Master of Borderland Art
By Ricardo Romo, Ph.D. Originally published on Dec 27, 2021 Luis Jimenez represents one of the premier sculptors and painters of the new Latino art generation. Rudolfo Anaya, the highly acclaimed New […]
Gaspar Enriquez: Borderland Artist
by Ricardo Romo, PhD (originally published in Latinos in America, August 2, 2021) Gaspar Enriquez’ recent inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC boosted his already […]
This “Winterfest” thing at San Jacinto Plaza
By Alberto Rivas This “Winterfest” thing at San Jacinto Plaza – well, let’s just call it what it is, an attack on Christmas. It’s the social trend these days: wokeism, and El […]
Hunden Strategic Partner’s Afternoon El Paso Stakeholder Session – Presentation of Condensed Preliminary Findings
All this time South Central residents may have believed that the frenzy by outsiders buying their properties was due to the potential land grabs by Texas Tech University or the Medical Center […]
A Short History of the Struggle by Hispanics for Representation at the Fort Worth Independent School District Board of Education
by Fernando Florez, September 1, 2021 What happened following the end of the Texas Revolution in 1836 when Anglos and Tejanos defeated Mexico has been recounted to many of us with deep Texas […]
LULAC Urges Humanitarian Solution For Haitians At The Border, Not Police Action
Nation’s Largest and Oldest Latino Civil Rights Organization Calls On Biden Administration to Speed Up Refugee Assistance Washington, DC – The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) today issued the following […]
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