On a clear January morning in 1948, a plane carrying 32 passengers departed from the Oakland Municipal Airport, destined for El Centro, a city near the U.S.-Mexico border. As the Douglas DC-3 soared ...

Naropa University graduate and former Boulderite Tim Z. Hernandez tells the world what the other side of California’s renowned fruit and wine industry looks like in his latest, “Breathing, In Dust.” ...

Bea Franco staring at her own image on the cover of “Mañana Means Heaven” by Tim Z. Hernandez. Author and performance artist Tim Z. Hernandez on stage at UC Riverside’s Tomas Rivera Conference 2008.

The book that defined a generation and continues to influence North American culture like few books in our canon actually began with a fascination for Chicano culture. Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," ...

Author Tim Z. Hernandez, fifth from right, visited the site of a 1948 crash that killed 32 people with some of the victims’ relatives. Special to The Bee The weather was ideal for flying, Tim Z.

All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of "the worst airplane disaster in California's history," which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican ...

In the winter of 1948, the wing broke off a DC-3 flying west of Coalinga, California, causing the plane to explode and expel its 32 burning passengers in Los Gatos Canyon. Most of the dead were ...

This is your weekly news roundup, which takes a quick look at some developments in government, politics, education, environment and other topics across El Paso. UTEP creative writing associate ...

Tim Z. Hernandez is a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso’s bilingual MFA program in creative writing. His poetry collection Some of the Light is forthcoming in March.