As damning rape and sexual abuse allegations against American civil rights icon César Chávez emerged two weeks ago, Max Reyes didn’t hesitate. The next day Reyes removed the labor leader’s name from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cesar Chavez in a 1966 photo. (Los Angeles Times) To the editor: Columnist Anita Chabria has found a way to put into words what so ...

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For more than a decade, troubling claims about César Chávez’s sexual abuse were already documented. Miriam Pawel’s 2014 biography, The Crusades of César Chávez, explored both his extraordinary ...

A person walks near a mural of César Chávez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962, at San Jose University campus in San Jose, Calif., March 18, 2026. Credit: OSV News photo/Carlos ...

The venerable Hispanic activist Cesar Chavez is venerated no more. After the New York Times reported that he sexually abused women and girls, the union organizer was posthumously cancelled. States and ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the state will no longer observe Cesar Chavez Day following sexual assault allegations against the late labor leader. The allegations, detailed in a New York Times ...

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For decades, March 31 was marked with civil rights marches, school commemorations, and community celebrations honoring Cesar Chavez and the labor leader’s championing of better working conditions for ...

Max Reyes, the son of Mexican American migrant farmworkers and the organizer of Brawley’s annual march to honor the fight for farmworkers’ rights, sits with a United Farm Workers flag in his living ...