On an overcast evening in early May 1977, 23-year-old Vietnam War veteran Jose Campos Torres was in handcuffs for drunk and disorderly conduct at a cantina in Houston’s East End. Rather than taking ...

Artist Hugo Crosthwaite paints a white bird enveloping the people in the drawing in a Liberty Station mural. Photo by Chris Stone Street art – from the spontaneous murals celebrating Kobe Bryant’s ...

In April 1970, residents of Barrio Logan occupied land beneath the Coronado Bridge to stop construction of a California Highway Patrol station and to keep the parcel as a neighborhood park. Chicano ...

As a young Houston robbery officer, Jim Montero frequently had to drop everything on the beck and call of his superiors to translate for fellow officers unable to understand Spanish-speaking crime ...

Houston was once known as the murder capital of the country. In 1979 alone, there were 664 murders, and one in every four was Hispanic. Discrimination, distrust and a language barrier exacerbated the ...

Liz Ramírez spent the first two months in her role as the new chief executive officer of the Chicano Federation meeting with each of the nonprofit’s 70 staff members. “Of course, it’s been a whirlwind ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, Colorado’s Chicano rights movement was focused on lifting up voices of the oppressed and marginalized. For many — El Movimiento — the movement has been going on since 1848 and ...