During summers and winters as a kid, Manuel Muñoz worked alongside his family in the farm fields of California’s Central Valley, surrounded by hard labor, poverty and his community’s constant fear of ...

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A Texan raised in two cultures in the Rio Grande Valley border county, he wrote 15 novels about the area and became a major figure in Chicano literature. By Richard Sandomir Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, a ...

WASTE MANAGEMENT, AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE AT GAS STATIONS. TURNING NOW TO OUR HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH COVERAGE, WE ARE CELEBRATING THE EFFORTS OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN WAS ON A MISSION TO PROMOTE ...

Oscar Zeta Acosta, a volatile Mexican-American writer who was the real-life inspiration for Hunter S. Thompson's Dr. Gonzo in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," is the focus of a new VOCES/PBS ...

Abelardo Barrientos “Lalo” Delgado died of cancer a couple of weeks ago. His death is a huge casualty to the Chicano community, and not just here in Denver where he lived, but in Texas and New Mexico ...