Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/civil-rights/ Our Thing Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/civil-rights/ 144 144 Dolores Huerta Day Is Celebrated on Civil Rights Activist’s 92nd Birthday https://remezcla.com/culture/dolores-huerta-day-celebrated-on-civil-rights-activist-92nd-birthday/ Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:51:25 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?p=321541 American labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta turned 92 years old on Sunday (April 10). In honor of her birthday, acting California Governor Eleni Kounalakis continued the state’s tradition of proclaiming the day Dolores Huerta Day. Dolores Huerta Day was first celebrated in 2019 after then-California governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2644

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]]> 5 Reasons Why This Movie Starring the Young Lords Will Have Your Revolutionary Fist in the Air https://remezcla.com/lists/film/5-reasons-why-this-movie-starring-the-young-lords-will-have-your-revolutionary-fist-in-the-air/ Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:48:53 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_guides&p=104340 'Millie and the Lords' mixes the past with the present and teaches us about the often-overlooked Latino contribution to the civil rights movement.

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]]> Young Lords juan felipe 24n-10-web Photo: Anthony Pescatore This Cuban Revolutionary Turned a Lena Horne Song into a Powerful Civil Rights Protest Film https://remezcla.com/film/tbt-cuban-revolutionary-turned-lena-horne-song-powerful-civil-rights-protest-film/ Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:12:52 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=99058 Twenty years before MTV started playing music videos, Santiago Álvarez set newsreel footage to music in his short film NOW.

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]]> This Chicana Photographer Captured the Tense Idealism of 1964’s Freedom Summer https://remezcla.com/film/tbt-chicana-photographer-captured-tense-idealism-1964s-freedom-summer/ Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:29:18 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=97957 A few brave Latinos were actively fighting for the cause of African-American civil rights in the South throughout the 1960s. Maria Varela was one of them.

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