The event is set for April 6, 2025. Julio Cesar Chavez, a former Mexican professional boxer, born in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico, will be leading the highly anticipated National Boxing Class.

"We find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years ago. And we should honor him for what he's taught us about making America a stronger, more just and more prosperous nation.

Books by Miriam Pawel — “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” and “The Union of Their Dreams” — provide some insight into the man whose name graces streets, schools, parks and a U.S. Naval ...

The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to better the lives of the nation's farmworkers helped improve the inhumane working conditions of ...

Farm labor leader Cesar Chavez pickets outside San Diego area headquarters of Safeway markets. Picketing was in protest over the arrest of 29 persons at a Delano, California, Safeway. Photo via ...

Chicano and civil-rights icon César E. Chávez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona, to migrant laborers. He worked in the fields before joining the Navy for two years and returning to ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. What holiday is today? See whether banks, DMV are open today as Cesar Chavez is remembered The vigilante work Chávez did in his lifetime is still felt ...

What holiday is today? See whether banks, DMV are open today as Cesar Chavez is remembered The vigilante work Chávez did in his lifetime is still felt heavily after his death. "Today, we proudly ...

In the story California progressives like to tell, Cesar Chavez was a champion for farmworkers and for unionization and should be revered for and spoken about purely along those lines. But of ...