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Cesar Chavez's Legacy Under Question After Sexual Abuse Allegations and Disney Has a New CEO

Headlines From The Times

L.A. Times Studios

News, Daily News, Society & Culture, The Times, California

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Cesar Chavez's name adorns city streets and university buildings, but later this month, Californians for the first time will celebrate Farmworkers Day after lawmakers voted on Thursday to change the name of the state holiday. This comes after a New York Times investigation came out Wednesday under the headline "Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years." It was a watershed moment and a time of reckoning with Chavez's legacy. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is racing to contain a growing global energy crisis as the war with Iran pushes oil prices further. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business on Thursday that the U.S. government could lift sanctions on Iranian oil, freeing up more than 100 million barrels stranded in the Strait of Hormuz. In business, Josh D’Amaro has officially succeeded Bob Iger as CEO of Disney, and travelers face increasing ticket prices as jet fuel costs surge globally. Read more at https://LATimes.com.

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0:00.0

This is an L. And the people are the people. It's a lot of the people. It's a good. And I think of the people. And the people. I was a good for a different. And you know, and you can't get a good at the time. I'm saying that's a good for. And it's a lot of the people.

0:38.3

I'm thinking of the people.

0:40.3

And so, you know, and the people who are

0:42.3

the people who are just going to be.

0:44.3

And so, you know,

0:46.3

the people are going to be a very,

0:49.3

and the people are going to be.

0:52.3

And we're going to be a very, and the people of this is a bit and the world. It's a very important and the world of the world. And the world and the world of the world. And I think it's a good and the people are, the specifically, the Latino community,

1:29.3

this is a story that we know very well, sadly, of powerful men abusing women.

1:35.3

And we are just not going to stand for it, especially a new generation.

1:39.3

There are no ifs and or but, and sadly, we have seen this far too long in American history, in American

1:47.2

society. And it doesn't matter if they're heroes. A hero that did terrible things is a hero. I don't

1:54.2

necessarily agree with a full-fledged cancellation just because I think there's an opportunity also

1:59.8

to talk about that complicated past. But it is up to every community to decide whether they want to do it.

2:05.5

And so I think it's telling that so many communities are saying, no, we need to reckon with

2:11.0

someone we idolized for so long as opposed to doing what aboutism that sadly plagues too

2:17.4

much of American society. Today I am joined here by members of our community, of our Latino community, partners of California

2:56.1

Rising, to demand that the name of Cesar Chavez be retracted from this avenue.

3:02.8

Cesar Chavez Avenue needs to be replaced.

3:05.9

There are conversations within the community, one that we are spearheading

3:09.6

on change.org to change it into Dolores Huerta Avenue. We have also heard from other community

3:16.1

members that want to possibly turn it into Brooklyn Avenue, return it back to Brooklyn Avenue.

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