Ships, Streets And Honoring César Chávez

By Henry Flores, Ph.D. As long as one lives one would expect “things” to change or progress, but sometimes it seems that I am terribly mistaken.  For one thing, there is […]

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A California politician ripped the Navy this week for deciding to name a cargo ship in honor of longtime civil rights activist and organizer César Chávez. Republican Duncan Hunter of […]

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The Navy is set to name its new ship The USS Cesar E. Chavez tomorrow, MSNBC reported. The naming ceremony will take place in San Diego Tuesday afternoon, MSNBC reports: The […]

The man who wrote a gigantic biography on the Argentinian icon and noted Communist Ernesto “Ché” Guevara wrote an essay recently in The New Yorker about the similarities between what […]

If the death of Cesar Chavez in 1993 ushered my rebirth as a Chicano,  then the Zapatista uprising of 1994 only cemented it. Before that moment, I considered myself to […]

Students in Tucson, Arizona preempted what they perceive to be a vote to undo ethnic studies in their schools, rushed into the Tucson Unified School District board room, tied themselves […]

The New York Times published a great piece on Sunday about John Tanton, who the story noted was probably one of the most influential, yet unknown people in the country. Essentially […]

Blanca Gonzalez Torres was an advocate for the Latino community in Washington state who died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm last August. Last week she was honored by the state senate […]