Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, a nonprofit artists' coalition founded in 1987 in the Silverlake community of Los Angeles. Their aim was to increase the representation of lesbian Latina and gay Latino artists in the LA art scene. VIVA! sponsored exhibitions, theatrical ...
Robert Hernandez traces the history and assesses the impact of VIVA! Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists, a nonprofit artists' coalition founded in 1987 in the Silverlake community of Los Angeles. Their aim was to increase the representation of lesbian Latina and gay Latino artists in the LA art sc...
my eyes were drawn to a T-shirt with the message, “Education is a Human Right.” David,1the skinny teenager who wore the shirt, had a moustache spare with youth, and his gelled hair stood up in pointed tufts. David told me that he had come from Los Angeles on a bus full ...
” a loose coalition of organized-crime families that coalesced in the early 1930s. At the insistence of mobsters such a Ben Siegel and Meyer Lanksy, the Syndicate had a branch devoted specifically to enforcement, which the press dubbedMurder Incorporated. Siegel himself is estimated to have bee...
Richard Alarcon, who learned how to build a multiethnic political coalition as an aide to former Mayor Tom Bradley, demonstrated that in 1993 by winning election, albeit by a razor-thin margin, to an East Valley-based Los Angeles City Council seat against a politically savvy white candidate. ...
In last November’s election the conservative, anti-Anaya coalition picked up new strength in both the House and Senate. The President Pro Tem of the Senate, Democrat Les Houston of Albuquerque, and the Speaker of the House Democrat Gene Samberson, of Lovington, are leaders of the conservative...
Assisted by a handful of organizers from the national CAWIU, a coalition of El Monte workers called a walkout at the height of the already short berry season—with immediate impact. The Japanese community rallied around its tenant farmers by helping tend the fields themselves. Local political le...
The disaster declaration makes low-interest federal disaster loans available to residents and businesses the counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Kern who were affected by the Mountain Fire that began November 6. Wildfires and Straight-line Winds: SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas ...
Proposition 36, a proposal backed by a coalition of prosecutors and big-box retailers like Walmart and Target, will reclassify certain theft- and drug-related crimes as possible felonies instead of misdemeanors and introduce mandated drug treatment for some repeat offender...
This chapter studies African American-Latino relations in the United States. Drawing on existing literature, it examines their nature, dimensions, and methodological questions while, at the same time, advancing some proposals. Still in its infancy, the study of African American-Latino relations has ...