Tarrant County commissioners will consider replacing Cesar Chavez Day with Veterans Day as a county holiday.
Days before Cesar Chavez Day was set to be celebrated across the country in March, a New York Times article exposed the lauded Latino labor activist for his alleged sexual abuse.
In reaction, some governmental bodies renamed March 31 as Farmworkers Day or replaced it with a celebratory day for his co-activist Dolores Huerta on April 10. After the news broke, Tarrant County scrapped Cesar Chavez’s name from the official county holiday and replaced it with a generic name that still allowed county employees to have the day off…