The Salt Lake City Council wants to rename the honorary span of 500 South known as César E. Chavez Boulevard.
“His name must come down,” council member Alejandro Puy said during a March 24 meeting. Puy’s fellow council members agreed.
In light of a recent New York Times investigation, communities nationwide with streets or holidays named after Chavez are reevaluating whether to keep those memorials of the late union leader and famed activist. The Times found that Chavez allegedly sexually abused two minors and also raped Dolores Huerta, his cofounder of what would become the United Farm Workers…