by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Feb 8, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Latino Art Now! (LAN!) is coming to Texas–at last! This week the first of 70 planned exhibitions opened. LAN! has been in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, but never in a Texas city. That makes the LAN! Conference in Houston ever more significant.Over...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Feb 8, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Frank Romero is considered one of the leading pioneers of Chicano and Latino art. Romero grew up in Boyle Heights, a large Latino neighborhood in East Los Angeles, just a short city bus ride from Chinatown.Romero studied at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Feb 1, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Over the past three years, Donald Trump has been persistent about building a wall along the two thousand mile border between the United States and Mexico. Initially, he proposed that Mexico pay for it. It is an idiotic proposal and history will not be kind to such a...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 25, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Cities have long been the place for good jobs. In San Antonio and other Southwestern cities, workers generally found work in a multiple of industries. For workers from nearby rural communities, San Antonio offered plentiful job opportunities to many with just a high...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 25, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Ana Fernandez paints about everyday life and the experiences of her neighbors in San Antonio. She is well known for her oil paintings of modest homes and neighborhood businesses. In 2018 Artpace funded her cover art watercolor titled “Kwik Mart.” Many of the homes she...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 19, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
On October 14, 1964, the Nobel Committee in Norway awarded Dr. Mar- tin Luther King the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 35, Dr. King was the youngest person to receive such prestigious recognition. Through- out his career as a civil rights leader, Dr. King credited Mahatma...
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