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Candidates are knocking on doors in key contests, such as the Henrico County Senate campaign between Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant, R-Henrico and Del. Schuyler VanValkenburg, D-Henrico, and the Petersburg-area House contest in which Democrat Kimberly Pope Adams is challenging Del. Kim Taylor, R-Dinwiddie. ....
(Maria Marquez Sanchez, La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center) In August 1972, a Chicano-rights group called the Brown Berets camped out on Catalina Island for four weeks, demanding that its almost 42,000 acres of undeveloped land be turned into housing. This exploration of the movement, which took place just three years after the Occupation of Alcatraz, also contains a wealth of archive photography. Luna Guzmán left Guatemala four years ago with the goal of reaching California. She had to face violence and sexual harassment while she was detained in a migrant detention center near San Diego and was later infected with COVID-19 while she waited for her asylum process in Tijuana. ....