In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. When Alessandra Moctezuma was offered an opportunity to host a traveling ...

Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Our Lady of Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration. Judith Huacuja, University of Dayton professor of art history, shares the ...

In the late 1970s and 1980s, public radio responded to the needs and interests of local communities often ignored or sidelined by commercial and mainstream media outlets. Radio Cadena, KDNA 91.9 FM, ...

WASHINGTON – The granddaughter of a bracero, who waited 50 days to take her seat in Congress, Rep. Adelita Grijalva stepped to the podium on the House floor and told her colleagues, "Our democracy ...

Mexican. Mexican-American. American. Chicana? Growing up, I never understood what the terminology meant. My parents defined a Chicana/o as someone who lost their heritage, their true Mexican culture: ...

In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the bloodied head of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, whom Dallas police had shot for allegedly stealing $8 from a vending ...

“Who has the right to tell history? Who has the right to occupy public space?” asks Erin M. Curtis, a co-author of the new book “¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/o Murals Under Siege” in which she ...

“Students work on the mural during the painting of the mural in the Yolo County Juvenile Detention Facility on Wednesday May 23, 2014 in Woodside, CA. After the staff and inmates were interviewed, the ...

For decades, the Chicana Service Action Center received millions of dollars in taxpayer money to help some of the county’s most disadvantaged residents: the homeless, the unemployed, victims of ...

(The Conversation) — In 1975, Chicano artist Amado M. Peña depicted police brutality by showing the bloodied head of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez, whom Dallas police had shot for allegedly stealing $8 ...