In 1975, KCET aired a half-hour concert featuring a hot new local band. “We feel it’s our obligation to spread our culture to the other people who don’t know about it,” said the musician, 22-year-old Francisco González, in a voice-over. He alternates between harp and mandolin, and ends the show with a quip that became the slogan of Los Lobos: …
Most of The Times’ series on the 1970 Chicano Moratorium will be collected in a 36-page booklet available as a free download or as a printed zine. First, hit “Print” and navigate to the paper handling settings in your printer’s system dialog box. You’ll want to set the printer to output “odd only” first, meaning that it’ll print only the …
About 20 years ago, I visited a Chicano bookstore in Santa Ana to buy “Border Correspondent,” a greatest-hits compilation of pioneering Los Angeles Times writer Ruben Salazar. “Mexican Americans traditionally kept their place so why should the big, important news media take notice of them?” The reporter behind the legend Reading Salazar today, my initial opinion of his skills still …
