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Aug 27, 2020 · The Chicano Moratorium and the death of Rubén Salazar continue to reverberate today as communities of color speak out against police brutality and discrimination, and as journalists are once again targeted, attacked and undermined by government officials.
Sep 2, 2020 · For Latinos in the Trump era, these consequences are deadly, from Hurricane Maria to the Walmart shooting in El Paso and the pandemic, as well as soaring hate crimes. Latino artists and...
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- Role of The Times
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In death, Salazar became a mythic symbol for a movement and the people he covered as a journalist. In reality, he was a complicated figure, a skilled code switcher who could easily navigate between white and Latino worlds. Colleagues at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, where Salazar was the Petaluma bureau chief in 1956, told me how he exposed secret...
At KMEX, Salazar’s small news crew aggressively covered growing tensions between Chicano activists and the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Concerned about the reporting, police visited Salazar at the station and warned that he was damaging the reputation of the LAPD. “Besides, they said, this kind of infor...
On a hot summer day in El Paso, I sat in a conference room packed with reporters at the 1995 National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists convention. Four panelists were lauding the groundbreaking work of Salazar, who was raised in the Texas border city and had cut his teeth as a cub reporter at the El Paso Herald-Post. A year had passed since I sent my ...
Tourists strolled past colorful piñatas, intricately woven shawls and other handicrafts as I sat with a colleague, then-Times columnist Héctor Tobar, at La Luz del Dia Restaurant on Olvera Street in late June 2010. It was the same restaurant where a shaken Salazar had met his three friends, telling them he suspected police were after him. We were t...
I never wanted to be pigeonholed into writing stories focusing solely on Latino issues. But this was a story about a fellow Los Angeles Times journalist who was killed. It transcended simplistic boundaries. When I first came up with the idea of sending a Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI, I was sure that someone at the newspaper had alr...
In recent months, I’ve seen history repeating itself. I was hired by the Los Angeles Times in 1992, as part of a grand experiment called “City Times,” a section created for neighborhoods historically neglected by the newspaper — the “hole in the doughnut,” as editors called the area. At the time, the newspaper was criticized for not doing enough to...
Aug 23, 2020 · By day’s end, hundreds were arrested and trailblazing Latino journalist Ruben Salazar was dead. In the Mexican American community, Salazar would be held up as a martyr, his death likened to the...
Aug 28, 2020 · Ruben Salazar, the first Latino columnist for the Los Angeles Times, was killed 50 years ago during the Chicano Moratorium. He pushed for representation and was 'ahead of his time.'.
Apr 22, 2008 · Ruben Salazar, a former Times staff writer and columnist, died covering the 1970 East L.A. riots. His friend and fellow writer Enrique Hank Lopez remembered what Salazar said only weeks...
Feb 18, 2019 · The death of revered journalist, Ruben Salazar. As FOX 11 celebrates 70 years of serving Southern California, we are looking back at some of the most significant stories we've covered.
