by Isaac Cubillos | Feb 17, 2026 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
I have a photograph from April 1973. Boulder, Colorado. The Crusade for Justice. In the frame stand Rodolfo Gonzales — Corky — founder of the Crusade. Beside him, Angela Davis, scholar and radical voice of a generation. And on the far right, a young Jesse Jackson....
by Isaac Cubillos | Feb 15, 2026 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
A few years ago, I saw the word Chicano on a University of California student application. Not in a classroom.Not in a movement space.In a drop-down menu. It was just another ethnic group. That should bother anyone who knows where the word came from. Chicano was never...
by Isaac Cubillos | Feb 15, 2026 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
There was a time when “Chicano” was not cultural décor. It was not an aesthetic.It was not a vibe.It was not something you listed in a social media bio between your playlist and your favorite taco truck. It was a political position. The generation that embraced the...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jan 27, 2026 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
Republicans don’t oppose immigration enforcement. They oppose amateur hour. That’s why Kristi Noem is in trouble today — not because Democrats are yelling, but because Republicans who actually care about law enforcement, gun rights, and winning elections are quietly...
by Isaac Cubillos | Dec 10, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
There’s a strange thing happening in America right now: the National Guard can be on your city street one week, pulled back by a federal judge the next, then restored by an appeals court the week after that — all without the Supreme Court weighing in on what the...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 10, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
In the early 1990s, I sat down with Dr. David Hayes-Bautista at UCLA to talk about a provocative book he had just published: The Burden of Support. At the time, the national conversation about Latinos in America was dominated by deficit thinking — stories about...
