Dolores Huerta Inducted Into California Hall of Fame

Dolores Huerta Inducted Into California Hall of Fame

Mary Mata March 22, 2013

By The Bakersfield Californian Labor leader and human rights activist Dolores Huerta was inducted into the California Hall of Fame during a ceremony Wednesday night at The California Museum in Sacramento, according […]

Cesar Chavez’s Widow Calls on The New York Times to Stop Using Racial Stereotype

Mary Mata October 8, 2012

PRESS RELEASE 36,000 Sign Petition on SignOn.org Calling on the New York Times to Lead a More Inclusive, Tolerant Discussion of Immigration in America ** http://signon.org/sign/it-is-never-too-late ** KEENE, CALIFORNIA – As President Obama heads to […]

Dolores Huerta on Why You Should Vote

NewsTaco October 1, 2012

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Two things prompted me to write this. One is that this past weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Farm Workers Association in California. That association […]

Dolores Huerta Receives Nation’s Highest Civilian Honor

Mary Mata May 30, 2012

By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi Dolores Huerta, the famed civil rights advocate of the farm worker movement, received the nation’s highest civilian honor Tuesday when President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal […]

Latino Civil Rights: Dolores Huerta

Mary Mata October 20, 2011

Dolores Huerta was born in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico but was raised by her single mother in the San Joaquin Valley community of Stockton, California. She became involved with […]