by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Dec 22, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
By Ricardo Romo Malaquias Montoya, this week’s cover artist, is one of the most recognized and accomplished Chicano artists of his generation. Montoya served in the U.S.Marines in the mid 1960s and used his G.I. Benefits to enroll at UC Berkeley. Between the years...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Nov 24, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
The first Chicano murals originated in 1965 on the walls of Cesar Chavez’ United Farm Workers [UFW] union headquarters in Delano, California. A decade later, supporters of Chavez’ UFW union marched from the Texas Rio Grande Valley to Austin with stops in San Antonio....
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Sep 24, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
By Dr. Ricardo RomoThe abundance of fresh water in San Antonio brought the first people to its springs and rivers more than 10,000 years ago. Historian W.W. Newcomb, Jr. writes that “the San Pedro Springs was “the focal point of three or more affiliated Coahuiltecan...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Sep 19, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
By Ricardo RomoWhile there are fifteen parks, schools, buildings, and roads named for Southsider Frank Tejeda, few people really know his accomplishments. There are only a few scholarly studies that discuss his life and political career. Understanding Tejeda’s life...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Aug 25, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
By Dr. Ricardo RomoThe Culebra Street corridor is the only community on the Westside where for over a half a century (1930-1980) Latinos, Blacks and Anglos lived in close proximity. In the last fifty years the community has changed dramatically in terms of racial and...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jul 26, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
By Dr. Ricardo Romo Jacinto Guevara moved to San Antonio in the early 1990s from his hometown of La Puente, California. He is a product of East LA schools and now lives in East SA. He grew up drawing on scrap pieces of paper and with the encouragement of his par-...
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