A&E has given a green light to The Chicano Squad (working title), a four-hour docuseries chronicling U.S.’s first all-Latin homicide unit dedicated to tackling Houston’s soaring Latino homicide rate ...

In this episode of FACEism, we remember a chapter of L.A. history that should never be forgotten. During the height of the Vietnam War, Mexican Americans were dying at an astonishing rate in the war, ...

It was 54 years ago, on Aug. 29, 1970, when we marched for justice at the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles. It was 122 years after the end of the U.S.- Mexico War, and an estimated 40,000 Chicano/as ...

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A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself. He resents being told Columbus “discovered” America when the Chicano’s ancestors, the Mayans and the Aztecs, founded highly ...

Long before Colorado was Colorado, Indigenous tribes lived on the land, then Spanish settlers arrived. The Mexican War of Independence fought in the early 1800s meant they became Mexican citizens.