Dolores Sanchez ran Eastern Group Publications, which operated the Eastside Sun, the Mexican American Sun, the Commerce Comet, the Bell Gardens Sun and more.
Dolores Sanchez, a longtime community leader who was the publisher of a chain of bilingual newspapers that provided a critical voice for residents in the predominantly Latino communities on Los Angeles’ Eastside and neighboring cities, has died. She was 87.Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa described Sanchez as a towering figure whose contributions extended beyond journalism into political and social activism.
While each newspaper was edited for the communities of East L.A. and southeast Los Angeles, their stories “helped create a larger community,” said Rodríguez. Villaraigosa, who was raised in East L.A.’s City Terrace neighborhood, recalled stocking shelves and working as a cashier for Sanchez and her husband at a discount grocery store they owned when he was 16.Dolores Sanchez, pictured with her daughter Gloria Alvarez, shuttered Eastern Group Publications in 2018.
For decades, the newspapers covered high school sports rivalries and stories of community success — in English and Spanish — delivered free to tens of thousands of homes every Thursday. Sanchez was not afraid to provide opportunities to aspiring journalists who had desire but lacked experience. One of them was Rodríguez.
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