Mexican-American

The museum was founded in June 2022 by eight individuals who wanted to highlight Mexican American history and culture. Two of the co-founders, Gus Hinojosa and Juanita Nañez, discuss what led to the creation of the museum, its inaugural exhibit, and why it was important to create a space for Mexican American contributions.

Blending historical events with contemporary civil rights issues, the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI) will hold a two-day virtual symposium to spur conversations of how social issues are not constrained by past times and still persist today.

A one-man show, written and performed by Nicolás R. Valdez, is a love letter to conjunto music — the unique style of music that’s a little bit Mexican, a little bit German and every bit American.

The Mexican American civil rights movement often paralleled alongside the African American civil rights movement. Both fought against voter suppression, and discrimination in the classroom and in the workplace, but the historical fights for the Latinx community are often overlooked.

At StoryCorps, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto remembers lessons his family passed down to him that have continued to reaffirm his pride in his Mexican American heritage and as a Spanish speaker.

One of the last classic Mexican movie palaces in San Antonio still stands. Built in 1949, for three decades, the Alameda Theatre played host not only to…

Hundred brutally beaten and even murdered by Texas Rangers. Civic rights, such as voting and serving on a jury, denied — all remnants of an era of…

Laura E. Gómez is a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles. Her book “Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican-American Race”…

On Fronteras: In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought to an end the Mexican-American war, which was started in 1846 over a territorial dispute in…

On Feb. 2, 1848, a treaty was signed that ended the U.S.-Mexican War and ceded 525,000 square miles of land from Mexico to the U.S., including Texas, New…