LOS CABOS, Mexico — Is Luis Gerardo Méndez, star of blockbusting movie “The Noble Family,” doing a Diego? Certainly, he’s alternating nights in the same role as Diego Luna in the Mexico City stage ...
Seven decades ago, Sylvia Mendez’s parents went to court to fight for her right to attend a predominantly white school in her Orange County neighborhood. On a recent evening, she sat in a place of ...
2017-03-31T20:00:21-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fba/20170331200057002_hd.jpgThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, which ...
The 1947 Mendez v. Westminster case was crucial in ending school segregation. After Sylvia Mendez was denied school enrollment due to her darker skin, her family – and other Mexican families who had ...