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Dolores Huerta: The Civil Rights Icon Who Created the Slogan ‘Si Se Puede' (Yes We Can)
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...
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Christine Blasey Ford Receives YWCA Silicon Valley's 2019 Empowerment Award
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on Wednesday was honored by YWCA Silicon Valley as a 2019 Empowerment Award recipient.
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Latino Actors, Writers Pen ‘Letter of Solidarity' in New York Times Amid Fears
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...
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Los Angeles Enshrines Dolores Huerta's Name Near Boyle Heights City Hall
Civil rights activist and labor union leader Dolores Huerta will have her name enshrined at the intersection of East First Street and Chicago Street in Boyle Heights Saturday during a dedication ceremony by the city of Los Angeles.
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Cesar Chavez Day: His Life Through the Years in Photos
Cesar Chavez Day honors the legacy of the civil rights leader on his birthday Friday. With Dolores Huerta, Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers union to fight for fair wages. Then-California Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation in 2000 creating Cesar Chavez a state holiday, and former President Barack Obama made the day a federal commemorative holiday in 2014.
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US Lacks Latino Historical Sites and Landmarks, Scholars Say
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...
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Connecting Chicano History and Homosexuality: ‘Gaytino'
For years, Dan Guerrero hid his own identity, but he now calls himself a “Gaytino,” and at 78 years-old, he wants to share his life with others.
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Busboy Who Aided Wounded Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Dies at Age 68
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.
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Man Who Held Dying Robert F. Kennedy Speaks Out on Lingering Pain
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...
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Happy Cesar Chavez Day, Southern California!
Cesar Chavez Day, the state holiday honoring the late labor leader credited with improving work and quality of life conditions for immigrant farm workers in Central California, will be observed Saturday on the 91st anniversary of his birth.
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Judge Finds Racism Behind Arizona Ban on Mexican-American Studies
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...
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On Trial, Former Arizona Schools Chief Says Radicals Taught Ethnic Studies Program He Later Banned
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...
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Hispanic Heritage: Tribute to Dolores Huerta, Ellen Ochoa, Helen Hernandez
NBC4 pays tribute to three women who have made significant contributions in the Latino movement in the U.S. and continue to make a difference.
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LA Jails End Controversial Immigration Agency Agreement
In a 3-to-2 vote, Los Angeles County supervisors voted to cancel a 2005 agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and release 12 deputies from duty.
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LA County Ends Jail Contract With ICE
The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to end an agreement that allows ICE agents inside county jails. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.