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It’s the weekend and we’ll be hate-watching “Selena” for the really bad wigs. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, a culture columnist at the Los Angeles Times, I’m here with the week’s essential arts news:
Chicano history recognized
Chicano Moratorium, the massive East L.A. protest against the
Vietnam War that ended in violence at the hands of sheriff’s deputies and ultimately resulted in the deaths of three people, including Times columnist and KMEX news director
The anniversary was an important one. It landed in a year indelibly shaped by
Black Lives Matter protests and conversations about systemic racism and police brutality conversations that are just as relevant now as they were then. It was also an opportunity to retell the story of a decisive moment in Los Angeles, one that shaped its art and its culture, and to make present a piece of Chicano history that had never really saturated the broader public consciousness.
Congress?s inability to break gridlock could mean working through the holidays in Washington washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SALT LAKE CITY Arguing that it would further divide the country, Sen. Mike Lee blocked bipartisan legislation Thursday that would create national museums dedicated to the histories of Latino Americans and American women.
The Utah Republican said on the Senate floor that the history of Latino Americans and women should be a part of the National Museum of American History, not in separate museums. The last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation within an array of separate but equal museums for hyphenated identity groups, Lee said. At this moment in the history of our diverse nation, we need our federal government and the Smithsonian Institution itself to pull us closer together and not further apart.
Utah senator blocks Collins bill for national museums honoring Latinos, women centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.