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Violeta Parra: A History of The Spirited Tesoro of Chilean Folk Music With Playlist

Diana RicoMay 3, 2018October 2, 2020

by Diana RicoMay 3, 2018October 2, 202004152

To be Chilean is to live on the edge. A long, narrow country of about 18 million whose southern tip marks the end of the South American continent—or, as many say, the end of the world—it’s hemmed in by the...

Culture

Artist Agnes Chavez on Art and Science Education

Diana RicoMay 1, 2018October 2, 2020

by Diana RicoMay 1, 2018October 2, 20202 2275

In 2015, when President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, it signaled a turning point in US public Education. A sweeping reform of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind, ESSA allows schools to move away from “teaching...

Culture

Ana Teresa Fernandez Paints Away The U.S. – Mexico Border

Diana RicoApril 23, 2018October 15, 2020

by Diana RicoApril 23, 2018October 15, 202012083

In 2011, San Francisco artist Ana Teresa Fernández got dressed up in her “performance attire” (a tango-inspired black cocktail dress and heels), climbed up on a stepladder at the Tijuana–San Diego border, and proceeded—without a permit—to paint a section of...

Lifestyle

Eastside Story: Breaking Down Stereotypes With People’s Yoga

Diana RicoJuly 18, 2017January 11, 2021

by Diana RicoJuly 18, 2017January 11, 202101449

When I first wanted to learn yoga in the early eighties, I had to seek it out in a tiny, funky Sivananda Yoga Center behind a liquor store on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. I stuck with it over the years as...

News and Entertainment

The Pen or the Sword? Poet Activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez

Diana RicoMay 3, 2017January 29, 2021

by Diana RicoMay 3, 2017January 29, 202111759

Is the pen really mightier than the sword? When it comes to inspiring social change, poet activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez is the person to ask. A former community and labor organizer, Galván Rodríguez worked for such organizations as the United...