KC neighborhood will ‘prioritize the truth’ after César Chávez investigation

The Kansas City neighborhood association with a road named after César E. Chávez running through it weighed in Friday on the revelations surrounding the civil rights leader.

A New York Times investigation reported that César E.Chávez, the late United Farm Workers union leader who became a national icon for workers and civil rights, allegedly engaged in decades-long acts of child sexual abuse and adult rape.

Discussions of changing the street name of Avenida Cesar E. Chavez in the West Side neighborhood were off the table at the Westside Neighborhood Association meeting Thursday, March 19.

Then, the association released a statement of solidarity with Dolores Huerta and all survivors…

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