Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta will spend the evening March 16 with guests of the Oakland Public Library. Huerta and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962, to stop the exploitation of farmworkers and provide them with a better life. Huerta served as vice president of the union.

Uncomfortable conversations are often the most meaningful conversations. The Bay Area is listening, but are we hearing each other? We continue to have that conversation in our series “Race in America: The Conversation.” Watch a replay of our live broadcast that first aired on Nov. 19, 2020.

Dolores Huerta has fought tirelessly for those who didn’t have a voice to fight for themselves. Huerta led the farmworkers movement with activist Cesar Chavez and co-founded what is known as the “United Farm Workers of America”. She created the movement’s famous slogan, “Si Se Puede”, which inspired President Obama’s “Yes, we can” campaign. At 90 years old, she’s influenced...

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on Wednesday was honored by YWCA Silicon Valley as a 2019 Empowerment Award recipient.

Actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and an immigration raid in Mississippi. The letter, published Friday in The New York Times and in a handful of Spanish-language newspapers, says...

San Francisco officials Friday celebrated the renaming of one of its elementary schools after farmworker rights activist Dolores Huerta. The former Fairmount Elementary School was renamed Dolores Huerta Elementary School in honor of Huerta, who helped organize Central California farmworkers with Cesar Chavez and led a grape strike in 1965.

A makeshift memorial to Hispanic Civil War Union soldiers in an isolated part northern New Mexico is a typical representation of sites linked to U.S. Latino history: It’s shabby, largely unknown and at risk of disappearing. Across the U.S, many sites historically connected to key moments in Latino civil rights lie forgotten, decaying or endanger of quietly dissolving into the...

The hotel busboy who came to Robert F. Kennedy’s aid when the New York senator was shot in Los Angeles has died. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that Juan Romero died Monday in Modesto, California, at age 68.

Juan Romero was a teenage Mexican immigrant working as a hotel busboy 50 years ago when he was thrust into one of the seminal moments of the decade. Romero had just stopped to shake the hand of Robert F. Kennedy on the night of his victory in the California presidential primary on June 5, 1968 when a gunman shot the...

Racism was behind an Arizona ban on ethnic studies that shuttered a popular Mexican-American Studies program, a federal judge said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima found that the state enacted the ban with discriminatory intent. He had previously upheld most of the law in a civil lawsuit filed by students in the Tucson Unified School District. But a...

The former leader of Arizona’s public schools defended his yearslong battle to end a popular Mexican-American history program, testifying Tuesday that he was troubled by what he described as radical instructors teaching students to be disruptive but insisting he targeted all ethnic studies programs equally. Lawmakers dismantled the programs in a measure that passed in 2010, the same year Arizona...