Aztlan: Origin of Mexicans
To our Mexican forefathers history was important, because they viewed themselves as a predestined people. This is a poem written by our forefathers about the Mexican nation’s predestination to greatness:
Antonio Gonzalez: Liberation of the Jews
Moses freed the Jews from Pharaoh in Egypt; Antonio Gonzalez liberated them from Hitler’s death camps.
The Start of American Racism Part 1
When did the racial division begin? A quick look back to see where American Racism began to evolve.
Are We in the Twilight Zone?
Imagine if you will, a society that some said was the envy of the world, some may have called it a “Utopian Society”.
The Story of Mexican North Texas
The first Mexicans to come to North Texas were Rialeros, men that worked on the railroad installing the tracks. Along the way, the railroads would leave a section gang to maintain the railroad.
Mendez VS Westminster School Board
Before Brown vs Board of Education there was Mendez vs Westminster School Board
Riots Break out in 1916 El Paso
At the end of 1915 a group met in El Paso to mark what they called the, “Start of an era of peace in Mexico”.
Visiting the First Mexican Settlers in North Texas: Strawn and Lyra
The Strawn cemetery has many headstones written in Mexican Spanish. The feeling of love and pain is palpable on the writing of those headstones
How I Remember my Grandfather Cesar Chavez
My earliest childhood memory of my Tata Cesar is being in La Paz where we lived with him and my Nana Helen, spending time with him while he would teach me to read. I was named by him because his favorite city was Santa Barbara.
Raza Unida (Fin)
With Ramsey Muniz heading the ticket and sixteen other candidates from around that included two Chicanas from Lubbock.