By Bob Highfill Jose Hernandez dared to dream, and he let nothing stop him. When he was a boy, Hernandez decided he wanted to be an astronaut after watching the Apollo 17 mission on television, […]
Tom Flores’ wait has ended.The former Raiders and Seahawks head coach has earned election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2021. The new class is being announced during […]
A sweeping year-end deal to provide coronavirus relief and fund the government also greenlights the creation of two new museums. The deal, text of which was released Monday afternoon, will create the National Museum of […]
Leticia Ordaz is familiar to many as a television news reporter and anchor. Add accomplished children’s book author to her list of credits. In September, Ordaz was honored in four categories for her first bilingual […]
When 67-year-old Gabriele LeMond left Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in March to visit her grandchildren in Boise, Idaho, she planned to stay two weeks. But as COVID-19 spread across the country and the government recommended […]
When Yale professor Cydney Dupree and her colleague analyzed more than two decades worth of political speeches and conducted experiments searching for bias when communicating with racial minorities, they were surprised by what they discovered. According to […]
The bloody history of lynchings of Mexicans in the Southwest is often forgotten, but recent research from Bill Carrigan reveals that Mexican workers and landowners were the targets of mob lynchings. Carrigan, a history professor […]
WASHINGTON — In a history making moment, two American Indian women were sworn-in today, January 3, 2019, as members of Congress. Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), from the 1st Congressional District in New Mexico and Sharice Davids […]
The Bracero Monument, a sculpture by Dan Medina that stands in Migrant’s Bend Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, pays tribute to the Mexican workers who temporarily migrated to the U.S. during and after World War […]
At 88, Dolores Huerta is still making you look bad. In 1962, Huerta and César Chávez co-founded the organization that would become the United Farm Workers, then led the legendary grape strike and boycott that […]
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