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Día de los Muertos is an important holiday for Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. While the holiday is celebrated around Latin ...

MEXICO CITY — The moment was historic. For the first time, a descendant of Mexicans who had emigrated north in search of a better life was returning to the lands of his forebears not as a tourist, but ...

What’s the difference between Chicano, Latino, Mexican American, Hispanic, Chicanx or Latinx? Historically, the question of identification for Mexicans left in the U.S. after the U.S.-Mexico War ended ...

SANTA FE – Reies Lopez Tijerina, a Pentecostal preacher turned activist who led a violent raid of a northern New Mexico courthouse more than 50 years ago and helped sparked the Chicano Movement, is ...

Mathew Sandoval is a teaching professor at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University and author of "Día de los Muertos: A Chicano Arts Legacy." ...

Vietnam veteran Tomás Sandoval lived in Lincoln Heights and was in Vietnam during the Aug. 29 Chicano Moratorium march. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) As helicopters and C-130s flew over a ...

"Walk out! Walk out!" This cry rang out throughout the East Los Angeles public high schools beginning on March 1, 1968, and through the first full week of March. Thousands of Chicano high school ...

A couple of weeks ago, someone sent in a letter for ¡Ask a Mexican! seeking a list of great books about Mexican and Chicano cinema. Rather than answer it in my columna, I thought I'd do so in our Film ...

A college student watched as construction crews and machinery descended on a parched piece of land beneath the enormous highway pillars of a freeway intersection in Barrio Logan, or Logan Heights, the ...

Dia de los Muertos events honoring the dead have a long history, but in Arizona they are tied to the more recent Chicano ...

"I felt that no one had taken the time to actually try to really document the Mexican American community," he said.