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, ...
The CSUN Chicana/o studies department was established in 1969 to respond to the growing needs of a diverse student body. On Monday, they celebrated their 45th anniversary with a variety of speakers ...
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 ...
Rodriguez Corona, Ed.D., is director of the Office of Student Equity Programs and Services at Southwestern College District. She lives in City Heights. As a young Chicana activist at San Diego State ...
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: ...
“I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark ...
Wednesday was the first day of the annual conference for the National Association for Chicana and Chicano studies. This year the conference is in Denver and is celebrating its 51st anniversary. This ...
“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 ...
In his September 24 letter to The Chronicle (“At Cal State Northridge, Who’s Doing the ‘Bullying’?”) Professor Acuña accuses California State University at Northridge of using civility to bully the ...
ORANGE- Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, a Chicana writer and activist, spoke to a full house Wednesday night, highlighting the progress that women of color have made over the years and emphasizing the ...
Today for IWD host Lisa Dettmer talks to guest who celebrate and remember the seminal anthology “Chicana Lesbians: The Girls our Mother Warned us About” which was first published in 1991 and was the ...
Apple Valley local Elizabeth Aguilar is celebrating the release of her debut book, "Chronicles of an Outspoken Chicana." In ...