The United Farm Workers, which Chavez co-founded, has denounced his alleged behavior and canceled celebrations of Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, a state holiday in California.

In St. Paul, several of those references are to Cesar Chavez, the late civil rights figure who helped form the farm labor movement. In the wake of an investigation by the New York Times, many across ...

Dolores Huerta gained prominence as an organizer of farmworkers seeking better wages. Here's why she visited Arizona over the ...

American labor movement icon had deep ties to Oakland. A NYT investigation uncovering claims of rape and abuse is causing a reckoning.

The deeply disturbing news, more than 30 years after his death, that American civil rights hero and Arizona icon Cesar Chavez now stands accused of sexual abuse and assault, including by at least two ...

Pontiac resident Tino Ybarra said. “He is the most-prominent icon of our civil rights. I disagree with what he said about ...

San Jose has to remove the disgraced labor leaders name from its most popular park, but it shouldn’t rush to decide what replaces it.

The sexual predations of the late labor leader follow a depressingly familiar pattern in left organizing circles.

For decades, Cesar Chavez was revered as a labor icon, but in March 2026, Dolores Huerta revealed decades of sexual abuse by him. The New York Times further reported systematic abuse of young girls ...

Fallout continued today from an explosive New York Times report alleging that labor icon César Chávez sexually abused female followers.

While there are high-level critics of diversity today, research finds that diversity is good for society—and it has a long ...

Movement growing for a “course correction” on conveying the history of the farmworker rights movement, given allegations that ...