On Monday, a group of city leaders met at a street corner in San Francisco to commemorate an 1886 landmark Supreme Court ...

Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco's says he will restore law and order to California if he is elected governor. Critics say his ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The city of San Diego has officially voted to remove Cesar Chavez’s name from a city holiday and street in Barrio Logan. The San Diego City Council approved an amendment to ...

FILE: Co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) labor union Dolores Huerta, 95, poses in her office in Bakersfield, California, on July 21, 2025. One of the best-known leaders in the ...

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The photos flooding my social media stream are like a highlight reel of the life of Chicana civil rights icon Dolores Huerta. The famous 1960s-era black-and-white shot of her looking like a bohemian ...

LOS ANGELES — An eerie silence had settled. As word evidently reached activists in the last few weeks that disturbing allegations of sexual abuse against Chicano civil rights icon Cesar Chavez were ...

Fresno State University will remove its Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Monument (1996) by Paul A. Suarez following disturbing sexual abuse allegations. (photo courtesy Fresno State University) Fresno State ...

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Murals depicting Cesar Chavez in Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Park in San Fernando. The United Farm Workers union said it will halt celebrations of its founder Cesar Chavez amid what the union described ...

Every year, Arizona State University professor Mathew Sandoval travels to various parts of the Southwest and Mexico to experience the various ways communities celebrate Day of the Dead. Day of the ...

The cultural label of “Chicano” originated as a derogatory term for individuals of Mexican American heritage, but was reclaimed by members of the Pachuco movement in the 1940s, then adopted by members ...