History of Chicano movement celebrated in Woodland

The Chicano Movement - young Mexican American Activists battling for better housing, health care and education for the poor and disenfranchised in the 1960s - will be told through the voices of Chicano Activists from the Sacramento Region Friday night in Woodland.

Siqueiros mural 'America Tropical' to reopen in 2012-13. Maybe.

Writing about Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros' famously censored 1932 mural "America Tropical" a while ago, I noted that a talented team from the Getty Conservation Institute was in the process of helping to restore a critically important piece of...

History Department Lacks Latin American Professors

After two unsuccessful searches to replace Harvard’s two endowed professorships in Latin American history, the history department will, for the second consecutive year, rely on visiting faculty to fill the two positions.

Mexican Independence Day Celebration in Little Rock

A crowd of 3,000-plus Americans and Mexicans are expected to attend the Mexican Independence Day Family Festival this Saturday on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center and Park. Festivities will run from 2 to 9 p.m.

Mexico's president has new Twitter account name

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has a new Twitter account name -- FelipeCalderon. Not terribly catchy but an improvement over his previous moniker -- presidente_FC.