Emmy award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa presents her new book, ONCE I WAS YOU, for Politics and Prose. About this Event In Once I Was You, Maria Hinojosa shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago and documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that often […]
The Real American Dirt: Roberto Lovato in conversation with Myriam Gurba about Roberto's book "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in The Americas". Presented by City Lights Books in San Francisco.
5 - 7 pm, PDT. FREE. 50th anniversary of the Chicano Rebellion. A discussion panel featuring Myriam Gurba, Congressman Joaquin Castro, LA Times writer Daniel Hernandez, labor activist Neidi Dominguez, Univision anchor Yarel Ramos, along with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and actor Edward James Olmos, and a screening of the Phillip Rodriguez-directed documentary “Ruben Salazar: […]