By: Maria G. Ortiz-Briones
SACRAMENTO
There are so many things that Chauncey Veatch loves about the Latino community, but the main one is the community’s family values.
The Army veteran and school teacher received the 2018 Latino Spirit Award Friend of the Latino Community on May 7 at the state Capitol.
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher hosts a podcast with 2018 Latino Spirit Award Honoree Kat Von D, the evening before the Latino Spirit Awards. Click on the picture below to listen to the podcast.
Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo hosts a podcast with 2018 Latino Spirit Award Honoree Cheech Marin and 2018 Latino Spirit Award Keynote Speaker Lalo Alcaraz, the evening before the Latino Spirit Awards. Click on the picture below to listen to the podcast.
KCRA Report by weekend anchor Kathy Park featuring Cheech Marin, Kat Von D, and Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo
By: Marcos Bretón
If someone had told comedic actor Richard "Cheech" Marin 40 years ago that he would be in Sacramento Monday to receive an award from politicians at the state Capitol for being a "positive role model," Marin likely would have said: "You're stoned, man."
But Marin is here, the headliner in a group of recipients of the Latino Spirit Awards, given by the California Latino Legislative Caucus on the floor of the state Assembly.
California Assemblymembers Blanca Rubio and Wendy Carrillo talk about immigrating to the U.S.
By: Fernanda Echavarri & Maggie Freleng
On the morning of February 27, 1948, a plane traveling from Oakland to the Mexican border crashed in Los Gatos Canyon, California, about an hour southwest from Fresno. All 32 people on board died that day. Twenty-eight of them were Mexican farmworkers who were in the United States because of the Bracero Program.
By: Renee Eng
Assembly Member Freddie Rodriguez tells us how a Pomona park planted the seeds of his political career.
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By: Juan Esparza Loera
Rosamaría Reyes remembers her grandmother never smiled after the death of Francisco Durán Llamas, one of 28 braceros who died aboard a DC-3 airplane when it tumbled out of the sky into Los Gatos Canyon near Coalinga 70 years ago on Jan. 28.
“My grandmother never laughed after that,” recalled Reyes, who had trouble getting information about her uncle from tight-lipped relatives. “She never showed a lot of emotion.”
By: Melody Gutierrez
SACRAMENTO — California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday that California will sue the federal government to protect the thousands of immigrants temporarily shielded from deportation under a program the Trump administration said it is rescinding.
Withdrawing the program after immigrants disclosed their undocumented status on condition of having that protection could violate their due-process rights, Becerra said.
