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Charlie Ericksen receives Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the MAOF

The Hispanic Link Legacy Project

Hispanic Link led the field for a quarter century. Its writers shared their expertise and views in more than 5,500 columns since the Link broke the national op/ed-page barrier with Latino voices in February 1980.

​The columns, newsletters, taped interviews and photographs may be the only inventory of news, information and opinion pieces covering a time when mainstream media avoided or simply ignored the Latino community. 

​The Link’s archives contain a 33-year record of Hispanic news, opinion and events, from 1980 to 2013. It is the most extensive collection of its kind, with articles authored by many of the nation’s outstanding Latino journalists, commentators, public officials, opinion leaders...
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The Hispanic Link Legacy Project is made possible by the following donors:
Cecilio Morales, The Hernández-Stern Family Fund, Charlie Ericksen, Darryl Figueroa, Jesus Rangle, Rosalia Salinas, Alejandra Ceja, Steve Padilla, Kenneth Burt,  Armando & Beatriz Rodriguez, Armando Rendon, Dora Delgado, Monica Villalta, Jonathan Higuera, Rick Avila, Jonathan Higuera, Melita Garza, Sayandro Versteylen, Janet Wasson, Marc Grossman...

The Ericksen Family Thanks You for Your Support!

Making the News in June 1983

Columns 1980 -

Hispanic Link Extras

Congressional Hispanic Caucus, 1985
I was a Wetback
​by Reporter, Charlie Ericksen, 1954

Weekly Reports

Editorial Cartoon
Vol. 1 No. 1, Spet. 5, 1983
Enrique Kissinger by El Gringo Loco