The State Board of Education approved an early draft of social studies changes, setting up a vote in June that will determine how students learn history over the next decade.

The City of Houston is moving to rename Cesar Chavez Boulevard following public allegations of sexual abuse against the late labor leader, with a 30-day comment period starting April 1 and a City Council vote set for May 13.

In 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farmworkers in California became inextricably linked when they mobilized to strike against grape growers.

Schools were also directed to cancel or change celebrations of the late civil rights leader amid allegations of sexual abuse.

The Houston Independent School District announced Thursday that it will no longer observe César Chávez Day on March 30.

Dolores Huerta and the late César Chavez are both credited with leading a movement that got growers to negotiate for better wages and working conditions for farm workers.

The New York Times on March 18 published allegations that the labor rights leader had sexually abused women and girls.

Greg Abbott said Texas will no longer observe Cesar Chavez Day and plans to push lawmakers to remove the holiday from state law, citing recent allegations about the late labor leader.

The United Farm Workers union says it won't participate in any celebrations of founder Cesar Chavez amid what it is calling troubling but unspecified allegations.

The granddaughter of late Latino labor activist Cesar Chavez is moving from President Joe Biden's White House staff to take another high-profile position at the helm of his 2024 reelection campaign.

A 12-year-old boy has been killed after police say one of his relatives grabbed a shotgun and shot him in the chest Friday night.

The Supreme Court has sided with California agriculture businesses in their challenge to a state regulation that gives unions access to farm property in order to organize workers.

HOUSTON – Monday, March 29 is a holiday and day of community service for students and staff of the Houston Independent School District, the largest school district in Texas. Chávez and Huerta co-founded influential unions, including the United Farm Workers, that shaped employee relations in the 1960s and 1970s. Both continued to advocate for workers in the following decades, each receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Chávez died in 1993; Huerta, at age 90, continues to advocate on behalf of low-income residents, Hispanics and women. On March 27, the Houston Independent School District held its first-ever Chávez-Huerta Student Symposium.

It might have been more than a half-century ago, but the impact of the Delano grape strike will always be felt -- not only in Hispanic history, but labor history in general.