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The new Chicano Park Museum documents our contributions to San Diego. Here are some of them.
Talamantez is a proud Chicana/Yaqui who is board chair of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center, vice chair of the Barrio Logan Association/Maintenance Assessment District, recent past...
The arts played a big part in the Chicano Movement. I’m glad I was part of it.
Virchis is a professor emeritus at Southwestern College Department of Theater Arts and producing artistic director of Teatro Máscara Mágica. He lives in Chula Vista. The cultural arts have always...
I participated in the Chicano Moratorium. It was a terrifying experience even for a veteran in combat.
Valladolid is a U.S. Army combat veteran and retired CEO of the Parent Institute for Quality Education. He lives in Bonita. I am honored to have shared my story with fellow San Diegans, especially...
New project commemorates Latino Legacy in San Diego County
Project thought to be the first comprehensive, multimedia presentation of Latino history in the region By Lyndsay Winkley In the 1950s, Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka toppled racial...
Latino Legacy Foundation Debuts Multimedia Chronicle of San Diego’s Hispanic Heritage
If you asked most Americans where the first efforts against segregated schools took place it’s a pretty good chance many would name states in the South. But they would be wrong. It was in Lemon...
I grew up in segregated San Diego before going to work with Mother Teresa
Sister Castro is a nun at St. Rita’s Catholic Church and a member of Sisters for Christian Community. She lives in Southeast San Diego. When I was first asked to contribute to the San Diego Latino...
We set out to chronicle the Latino experience in San Diego. These stories needed to be told.
Velasquez is founding president and chair of the Latino Legacy Foundation and an emmy award-winning former television journalist, and lives in Mission Hills. Ybarra is founding vice president of the...
The San Diego Latino Legacy project illuminates a rich, largely unknown history
Ortiz, Ph.D., is a professor of Chicano and Chicana Studies at San Diego State University and was inducted into the Stanford Alumni Multicultural Hall of Fame. He lives in the College Area. When...