Opinion
In March 2000, two friends and I were driving back to Grand Rapids from the east side of Michigan, where we had attended a birthday event honoring Cesar Chavez.
Somewhere along that drive in the middle of the night, a simple but powerful idea took hold: our city should honor his legacy by naming a street after him.
Within a week, we formed a committee and submitted a proposal to the City of Grand Rapids to rename Grandville Avenue, a road that runs through one of the most vibrant and concentrated Hispanic communities in the city…