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Black-and-white photos cover the dining room table in Gilbert Padilla's Fresno home.

More than two dozen dogs are in need of new homes after an outdoor animal shelter discovered multiple litters that had been abandoned early Thursday morning.

The Forty Acres in Delano, California, the United Farm Workers uunion's original headquarters, is about two miles from where Cesar Chavez began his movement: The house where he lived with his family, the Filipino Hall where he announced his first fast, Delano High School where the farm workers got support from US Senator Robert Kennedy, and the ... (more)

Editor's note: Kerry Kennedy is the president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, and author of "Speak Truth To Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World" and "Being Catholic Now."

On Cesar Chavez Day, we celebrate one of America's greatest champions for social justice.

Actor and director Diego Luna walked along Csar Chvez Street in Austin with a TV crew asking passers-by if they'd heard of the man the road was named for.

Chavez experience warns us about illegal immigration With release of new Cesar Chavez film, former border patrol agent recalls his first meeting with famed labor organizer by Michael Harpol - Special to the SGN Keeping an eye out for harvest crews on a late-summer morning in 1965, my partner, Bill Gibson, and I drove in our green and white U.S.

The César E. Chávez Family Day Celebration filled the Maddux Youth Center on Saturday with speeches, poetry, cultural dances, and booths offering information and tasty tostadas.

An associate professor of history at San Francisco State University, Mabalon is author of "Little Manila is in the Heart," a history of Stockton's Filipino community.

This Monday, March 31st is Cesar Chavez Day. A day to honor Chavez an American farm worker, labor leader, educator, civil rights activist, founder of the United Farm Workers , and hero.

When prominent Latino activists meet with President Barack Obama, there's one White House staff member present whom many of them have known since she was a child.

On Cesar Chavez Day, we celebrate one of America's greatest champions for social justice.

First, APEX Contributor Ellen Choy will sit down with three API holistic healers who practice different non-Western, holistic modalities of healing.

Cesar Chavez is one of the best-known labour leaders in the United States. Now, as BBC Mundo's Jaime Gonzalez reports from Los Angeles, the life of the Mexican-American activist has been made the subject of a feature-length biopic by Mexican director Diego Luna.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Central Valley farm workers wave the United Farm Workers flag at a special screening March 25 of the film "Cesar Chavez" held at The 40 Acres, the former UFW headquarters in Delano.

This is story of Jon Lewis, the United Farm Workers Union'sphotographer at the Delano, California,grape strike in the mid 1960s.He became the United Farm Workers Union's semiofficial photographer and a close confidant of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez .

"The Crusades of Cesar Chavez" is the first comprehensive biography of the spectacular rise and messy decline of the United Farm Workers Union , and the man who struck the sparks that launched an epic American social movement.

In the Bible, Mark records Jesus as saying: "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town."

A rich digital archive documenting the UFW Farmworkers' Movement in Central California from 1962 to 1993 has been acquired by the University of California, San Diego Library.

The UC San Diego Library on Wednesday unveiled a large digital archive it acquired that documents the history of the United Farm Workers movement, a treasure trove of materials that officials expect will serve as a valuable research tool for scholars and students.

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Digital Farmworker Movement Documentation Archive Acquired by UCSD Library

United Farm Workers protestors march in a photo from the collection.