It was 1997. Joey Terrill was feeling grateful to be alive, but also conflicted about it. The artist had spent the ’80s losing friends and lovers to the ravages of AIDS. In 1989, he had been diagnosed ...

As a child, renowned Chicano artist Tony Ortega was fascinated not just by artwork, but by words. Growing up in a bilingual household, his grandparents spoke to him in Spanish, but he often found ...

García, who started teaching at UCSB in 1975, was among the first generation of professionally trained historians to excavate and document Chicano/a history, helping to set the foundation for emerging ...

After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

Boilerplate as it can be, David Alvarada's documentary nevertheless offers a rousing assertion that Chicano art is as ...

In 1989, Latinx cultural scholar Tomás Ybarra-Frausto coined the term “rasquachismo” in an essay that explored a cultural concept informed by the daily experiences of ordinary Chicanos. While the term ...

When it comes to Los Angeles, Estevan Oriol has seen it all. The photographer, director, fashion label head, and entrepreneur was there when DIY punk rock and new wave culture spread throughout the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Alvarado’s “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez” offers a crash course through the life of its subject, a pioneer of ...