Good morning, it’s Thursday, October 29. Expect a cooler, cloudy day with highs in the low 70s.
1. Remembering Dolores Huerta
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Yesterday, when the news broke that Dolores Huerta, the labor and civil rights icon who helped found the United Farmworkers, had died, every single one of my group chats flooded with expressions of grief. My Latino journalism friends and family were all in shock, even though Huerta was nearly a hundred.
That’s because even at 96, Huerta remained a ubiquitous — and seemingly tireless — presence in local and national politics. There she was, chatting with reporters at Xavier Becerra’s primary election night party or sitting with activists at this year’s Democratic party state convention.
She felt both larger than life and yet grounded and familiar, like you could turn a corner and she would be there. That’s literally what happened the last time I saw her, in summer 2025. I was at the Vincent Price Museum in East L.A.
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