Cesar Chavez News

Are United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall suitable role models for today's young people? 1200 WOAI news reports a committee of the State Board of Education, which is working on the next generation of social studies textbooks for Texas schools, says no.

Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies need your help identifying a body found south of Alamo.

Civil rights leaders Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall - whose names appear on schools, libraries, streets and parks across the U.S. - are given too much attention in Texas social studies classes, conservatives advising the state on curriculum standards say.

The city of Portland, Ore., is renaming a street to honor Hispanic labor leader Cesar Chavez, ending a two-year wrangle that included charges of racism, government heavy-handedness and indifference to problems of residents and businesses along the thoroughfare.

Several roads in the downtown area will be closed on Saturday due to the fireworks display.

On Saturday morning, several roads will close in preparation for the H-E-B Austin Symphony Fourth of July Concert and Fireworks.

Lawmakers approved a bill that will allow the Texas Department of Transportation $2 billion in bonds to be spend on road projects was passed.

Wednesday, Jul. 1 2009 @ 6:02PM Patrick Michels Eight days ago, Unfair Park broke the news that the city was looking to rename at least a section of Young Street for Cesar Chavez.

Hidalgo Sheriff's deputies are looking for four men who stormed into a club. It happened last night at the Oasis Social Club off Owassa and Cesar Chavez.

There is a debate growing over whether to rename a city street after Latino activist and union leader Cesar Chavez .

If you were wondering just how serious the city is about renaming that stretch of Young Street after Cesar Chavez , well, looks pretty serious.

A proposal to rename downtown's Young Street for civil rights leader Cesar Chavez is far from a done deal and will face significant obstacles before it is ever realized.

Young Street, a stretch of road that cuts though downtown Dallas, is now on the shortlist to be renamed for labor leader Cesar Chavez.

A controversial effort to rename a significant Dallas street for civil rights leader Cesar Chavez has focused on downtown's Young Street, the address of the city's planned convention center hotel, its central library and the headquarters of The Dallas Morning News .

Upheaval in Iran has touched lives in Central Texas, and a candlelight vigil has been planned for Monday night in Austin.

An Austin man says a police car-- without lights or sirens-- crashed into his car early Sunday morning.

Repair of a 21-inch sewer main underneath Cesar Chavez Street will force the closure of a westbound lane on the street between Interstate 35 and Colorado Street over the next week, city officials say.

Sean Leys sat huddled and still in a tent on a sidewalk outside of a Los Angeles middle school, fatigued by an ongoing hunger strike but resolved to protest looming teacher layoffs.

Racism is a canker in our human society. During the past three decades, our nation has worked tirelessly to root out the causes of racism and discrimination and to squelch their presence in our employment, educational and social environment.

More than 100 people turned out at the Riverside High School gym on Thursday to hear state officials tell them about the creation of toll lanes on the Cesar Chavez Border Highway -- the second time in a week that residents in the Lower Valley were told major road construction could soon affect their lives.