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Antonio Mejías-Rentas

Antonio Mejías-Rentas is a longtime journalist based in Los Angeles. He tweets @lataino. 

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The 1970 FBI Wanted poster for Angela Davis.

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How Angela Davis Ended Up on the FBI Most Wanted List

The scholar and activist was sought and then arrested by the FBI in 1970—and the experience informed her life’s work.

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8 Essential Gadgets From the 1980s That Are Now Obsolete

Once cutting-edge and status-conferring, these technologies have since been overshadowed.

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Sheriff's deputies form a line across street at Garfield High School during a Chicano student demonstration on March 5, 1968. Similar confrontations occurred at other schools.

How 1968 East L.A. Student Walkouts Ignited the Chicano Movement

Thousands of Mexican American students participated in the ‘Blowout,’ the first urban, youth-led protest of the burgeoning Chicano civil rights crusade.

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Celia Cruz during rehearsal for the third annual Latin GRAMMY Awards ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, 2002.

The Origins of 7 Key Latin Music Genres

Colonization of the Americas allowed for the melding of European, Indigenous and African sounds—creating some very danceable musical styles.

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