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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.