Over 40 years ago, LA Times Columnist and KMEX news director, Ruben Salazar was hit in the head by a tear gas canister while sitting in a bar during an anti-Vietnam war protest that had grown violent.

Forty years ago this month a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy killed Los Angeles Times journalist Ruben Salazar. LA County Sheriff Lee Baca said today he’s decided to reconsider a decision to keep ...

Frank Sotomayor, a senior fellow at the Institute for Justice and Journalism and adjunct professor at USC Annenberg, never met Ruben Salazar, though he knew of his journalism even while in the U.S.

In four days of protests over ICE immigration arrests in the Los Angeles Area, nearly a dozen journalists, including CalMatters investigative reporter Sergio Olmos, were struck by projectiles fired by ...

Sunday, Aug. 29 was the 40th anniversary of the death of Latino journalist Rubén Salazar. Salazar was killed on August 29th, 1970, when he was struck in the head by a tear gas projectile fired by a ...

That’s why the past is not even past, to paraphrase William Faulkner — it’s always on my radar. But even a SoCal history nerd like me doesn’t know it all, which is why I was happy to hear recently ...

Ralph Ruben Salazar Oct. 14, 1949 – Oct. 21, 2011 Resident of Mountain House Ralph Ruben Salazar passed away on October 21, 2011 at his residence in Mountain House, Ca. Born on October 14, 1949, in ...

Every year about this time, the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks stadium audio engineer brings out the song "Welcome Back" by John Sebastian. In these parts, it goes by another title: "Ruben's Theme." He's ...

A massive fire that devoured an empty building at the vacant Ruben Salazar apartments was intentionally set, an El Paso Fire Department spokesman said this week. An arson investigation continues into ...