A Santa Barbara city councilmember is openly discussing whether to rename “Calle Cesar Chavez” in the wake of newly reported allegations of sexual assault against the late farm-labor leader and civil rights figure.
The New York Times on Wednesday published an investigation detailing claims from three women, including labor icon Dolores Huerta, alleging that César Chávez used his position to sexually assault them.
Two of the accusers told the Times they were abused as girls; Huerta, who co-founded the farmworker union with Chávez, said he raped her and that she later gave birth to two of his children…