When my family migrated from New México to California in the late 1960s, César E. Chávez was in the midst of his crusade to gain labor rights for the farm workers who made fortunes for grape growers ...

MORGAN HILL, Calif. (KGO) -- Santa Clara County health officials teamed up with an iconic labor union Wednesday afternoon to vaccinate hundreds of farm workers who are essential to the region's food ...

Prologue : the car pool -- The founding. The territory -- The work itself -- Childhood as destiny -- The lay Catholic activist -- The alchemist -- The organizer in Oxnard -- Climbing the fence -- A ...

While working together at the CSO, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta discovered a common interest in organizing farm workers. Chavez’s family had been forced into migrant work in the 1930s after losing ...

Last week’s premiere of the Cesar Chavez biopic was celebrated by Chicanos and non-Chicanos alike, but another Filipino-American activists felt that the film falls short of accurately depicting their ...

Beloved activist Maria Rifo, the modest matriarch of Santa Rosa's Latino community whose friendship with Cesar Chavez sparked four decades of social justice outreach, has died at 98. Chavez's ...

"I didn't know it was a holiday," said Leilani Shrmizu. "No idea." She came to get a copy of her marriage certificate. Ron Reise of Laton came to pay taxes. He wasn't aware of the holiday. "I didn't ...

Across the country, countless schools, parks, libraries and roads bear the name Cesar Chavez, the activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union who spent much of his life in Kern County and ...

Share By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read Matt Garcia is the author of From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement . Evan Kleiman host 'Good ...

Macario Villanueva, a migrant farmworker who fought for fair pay and better working conditions alongside civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, died Sunday in Alamo. He was 101. Born in Villa de Guadalupe, ...

From its roots in student activism and ties to the first-ever College of Ethnic Studies, the Cesar Chavez Student Center ...