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Latina Mothers Hold the Family Together
Posted By Dr. Ricardo Romo This year Latinos are celebrating Mothers’ Day in highly troubling times. The Covid-19 Pandemic is one of the greatest...
A Latina Who Saved Jobs
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the world economy, but the service industries, food production and sales, as well as hotel businesses that...
The Rise of Latino Political Leaders
By Dr. Ricardo Romo When I returned to Texas in January 1980 after a 13 year hiatus, I found my hometown of San Antonio undergoing monumental...
Latinos Also Inspired by Dr. King
By Dr. Ricardo Romo Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke before 250,000 demonstrators for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August of 1963,...
Latinos can find benefits from Art and Music
By Dr. Ricardo Romo Latinos benefit by engaging in the arts, and not just for the obvious reasons of enjoying beauty and creativity. In many Latino...
Juan de Dios Mora
Cesar Martinez
By Ricardo Romo Cesar Martinez grew up in Laredo, Texas and attended Texas A&M University at Kingsville. While at the Kingsville campus he...
The End of Segregation in a Southern Town
By Ricardo Romo A story that is not well known is how San Antonio Tech High School was a prime model of racial harmony and ethnic tolerance in the...
Malaquias Montoya
By Ricardo Romo Malaquias Montoya, this week’s cover artist, is one of the most recognized and accomplished Chicano artists of his generation....
Early Chicano Murals of San Antonio
The first Chicano murals originated in 1965 on the walls of Cesar Chavez’ United Farm Workers [UFW] union headquarters in Delano, California. A...