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February 8, 2014

The Aspen Institute invited Alex Ortega, CSRC associate director and professor of public health and psychiatry and bio-behavioral sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, to challenge over 170 students from seventeen Los Angeles high schools to identify major health problems in their communities and develop strategies for combating those problems.

February 5, 2014

CSRC visiting scholar Alvaro Huerta was a guest on Tavis Smiley on February 5. Huerta discussed the premise of his recent book, Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm (San Diego State University Press, 2013).

The segment can be viewed here.

February 3, 2014
Avant-garde Chicano filmmaker Willie Varela to lecture at UCLA and VPAM, new archival collections, the release of the second edition of "Self Help Graphics & Art," and more! (Image: Frame grab from "Video Art by Willie Varela")
January 31, 2014
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was interviewed for this story on the new Perez Art Museum Miami, which endeavors to have Latin American art and art by those of Hispanic and Latino backgrounds treated in a "central yet inclusive manner."
January 29, 2014

CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was quoted in a Daily Bruin story concerning the anti-discrimination measures recently mandated by UC President Janet Napolitano for all UC campuses.

January 29, 2014

The Latinos & Economic Security project (LES) has issued a statement supporting President Obama's MyRA program, saying it's advantageous to Latinos, especially those who may not be knowledgeable about current retirement vehicles. In addition, "this new program lessens the risks of loss, mismanagement, and fraud, an issue important to immigrants, young Latinos, and older Hispanics who have been too often victimized by unscrupulous financial practices."

January 27, 2014
A summary of remembrances of the late Chicano poet and activist, including the Los Angeles Times obituary that quotes CSRC director Chon A. Noriega.
January 23, 2014

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago has published a catalog to complement the group exhibition Black Is, Black Ain't, which was on view at the Society in 2008. The catalog includes the essay "Babel Screened: On Race, Narcissism, and the Predication of American Video Art" by Huey Copeland, assistant professor of art history at Northwestern University. The photograph "Decoy Gang War Victim" from a 1974 Asco performance is one of the essay's illustrations.

January 23, 2014

Asco and Friends: Exiled Portraits, organized by Le Cartel and the CSRC and co-curated by Celine Kopp, Chon A. Noriega, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas, has been announced. This is the first major exhibition in France of works by the artist collective Asco, active in Los Angeles from 1972 to 1987. The exhibition will take place March 8 through July 6, 2014 at Tour-Panorama, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France.

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