Faustino Diaz: Trombone master from Oaxaca in L.A.

*What a wonderful interview! What a wonderful opportunity to listen and learn from a Latino master – from Oaxaca to the Rotterdam conservatory. The podcast is in Spanish,well worth the […]

By Sam Quiñones, A reporter’s Blog The barefoot Triqui Indian basketball team, from the mountains of Oaxaca, is in Los Angeles for a couple weeks. The team of 10 and […]

By Paul Harris, NBCLatino A long walk for social and political change is finally over, for now. “I am exhausted,” said Estefany Mendez. “I have never done anything like this […]

By Dylan Anderson, United Farm Workers Internet Communications Ruby Ridge is a large dairy located in Eastern Washington. An overwhelming majority of workers employed at the dairy signed union authorization […]

[Editor’s Note: The following is a press release  and photo from the César E. Chávez Foundation.] Richard Chavez, 81, Cesar’s younger brother, helped build the UFW from its earliest days. […]

The Wall Street Journal reported an interesting list recently, “Five Reasons to Embrace Migrants” and we wanted to re-share that list here, in a nutshell the gentleman who wrote the […]

The Navy is set to name its new ship The USS Cesar E. Chavez tomorrow, MSNBC reported. The naming ceremony will take place in San Diego Tuesday afternoon, MSNBC reports: The […]

Eighteen years ago Saturday, César Chávez died. That was 1993. Chávez was originally born in Arizona, but his family later became migrant workers in California, and went on to be […]

A University of California at Berkeley study found that prenatal exposure to pesticides leads to lower IQs in babies. The study found that the use of popular organophosphate pesticides leads to […]