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Our own Rusty Barcelo has released her own music CD! Check out this wonderful music, and also know that she is donating all proceeds to MALCS!
“Chronicling a life amidst family and friends, these lyrics are testimonios reflecting a Chicana story at once personal and universal.”
~ Norma Cantú, Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio
Our own Rusty Barcelo has released her own music CD! Check out this wonderful music, and also know that she is donating all proceeds to MALCS!
“Chronicling a life amidst family and friends, these lyrics are testimonios reflecting a Chicana story at once personal and universal.”
~ Norma Cantú, Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio
Call for Proposals El Mundo Zurdo: An International Conference on the Work and Life of Gloria E. Anzaldúa Sponsored by The Society for the Study of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (SSGA) and the Women’s Studies Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio May 16-17, 2009 May 15, 2009—Special Pre-conference Trip to the Rio Grande … Read more
My name is Lourdes Serrano and I am the promoter of MeChicano Films. I am currently in charge of a very interesting and educational project, A Forgotten Injustice is Vicente Serrano’s opera prima, and the first documentary that uncovers the story of almost two million Mexican Americans and U.S. citizens, who were forced out of … Read more
Faced with dismal high school and college graduation rates for Chicana and Chicano students, educators, policy-makers, community leaders and other stakeholders must do more to increase the number of Chicanos attaining high school, college and graduate degrees, according to a UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center report. Out of 100 Chicana and Chicano students who start … Read more
Faced with dismal high school and college graduation rates for Chicana and Chicano students, educators, policy-makers, community leaders and other stakeholders must do more to increase the number of Chicanos attaining high school, college and graduate degrees, according to a UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center report. Out of 100 Chicana and Chicano students who start … Read more
When Barack Obama set out to choose his secretary of Labor, his top priority was probably not recruiting an emblematic Angeleno. But in tapping Hilda L. Solis, a Democrat who represents a portion of the San Gabriel Valley in Congress, that’s just what he’s done.
The Latina daughter of immigrants, a product and champion of the labor movement, a staunch environmentalist, an ardent feminist and one of the gutsiest elected officials in American politics, Solis personifies the best of the new Los Angeles.