Cesar Chavez’s Complex History on Immigration

By Ted Hesson, ABC/Univision For a significant period of his storied career as a labor organizer, Cesar Chavez opposed illegal immigration. He encouraged union members to join “wet lines” along the Arizona-Mexico […]

By John Holland, The Modesto Bee So, is the work of César Chávez, who would have turned 86 this Sunday, complete? No, it isn’t. Farmwork- ers remain among the lowest-paid people […]

By Ray Salazar, NewsTaco Google is renowned for its doodles, the images embedded into the search engine’s logo on special occasions.  This Easter—March 31—Google is not recognizing the spiritual or […]

Armando García Todos los pueblos han tenido un lider  que ha luchado por que la justicia llegue a los más necesitados, a los parias, a los desamparados, a los que con […]

By Erika L. Sánchez, NBC Latino The closest thing Latinos have to a national holiday is Cesar Chavez’s birthday on March 31st. Cesar Chavez’s birthday is already celebrated in ten […]

Por Maria Lourdes Pallais, Reporte Indigo Es mediodía del 9 de octubre de 1967. El sargento Mario Terán le da el tiro de gracia a Ernesto “El Ché” Guevara, tras […]

By Ivan Delgado, Aurora Saldivar, Johnny Flores, New America Media KEENE, Calif. — On October 8, 2012, over 6,000 people descended upon Villa La Paz — the home, operational headquarters and […]

By Victor Landa,  NewsTaco From Affirmative Action, to the Cesar Chavez Monument and the surprising inductees to the all-time Latino professional baseball team – we chatted with Latino USA about the slightly “off the […]

By Lalo Alcaraz, Pocho Ñews Service Pres. Barack Obama and I met up yesterday in Keene, a pueblito of a town in Kern County, CA. Obama was there to dedicate a […]

By Jose Cruz, Our Tiempo President Obama officially dedicated the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument yesterday  in the Central Valley where the farmworker labor movement took place. This article was […]