History + Texas Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

October 5, 2009

Husband and Wife Team Keep Native Traditions Alive – Beatriz Ortega Ruiz y Mario Augustin Gaspar Rodriguez create using a pre-Hispanic technique called pasta de caña de maiz & maque, an indigenous form of lacquer ware that already had a long tradition when the Spaniards arrived 500 years ago.

August 17, 2009

We call our neighbor city to the south Ciudad Juárez

July 20, 2009

Every year, around July 20, El Pasoan Felipe Cardenas proudly tells people that his father buried Pancho Villa twice.

July 14, 2009

Mexican President Victoriano Huerta rests in El Paso cemetery

June 23, 2009

Book sheds light on El Paso’s role in Mexican Revolution – “The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906 and 1920″

May 31, 2009

Tejanos to be represented with statue on front lawn of Texas state capitol

March 17, 2009

In late April, Alfredo Santos will publish his reference book, The 2009 Austin Hispanic Almanac, which will offer what he says is the first historical, statistical portrait of Austin’s Latino business and civic community as it’s evolved from the early 1900s to its status today as the city’s fastest-growing demographic component.

March 3, 2009

Historian reveals the forgotten role of Tejanos in fostering Anglo immigration to Texas – Texas Independence Day – March 2nd

December 2, 2008

Exhibit explores, celebrates African presence in Mexico – The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present,” a traveling exhibition currently at the Museo Alameda – San Antonio

September 29, 2008

New volume collects works of Chicano writer, artist and Renaissance man :: José Antonio Burciaga – “The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes,” edited by Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón (University of Texas at El Paso)

August 11, 2008

Mexican labor helped move El Paso a century ago

May 6, 2008

South Texas town abolishes 1931 segregation law (against Hispanics)