The death of Patrick Stewart at 86 led to a slew of tributes, including from acting colleagues and even Marvel Studios. Known for his roles as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek” and Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men" films, Stewart…
Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta was a beloved figure in San Antonio, where she marched, knocked on voters' doors and pressed City Council to expand voter access. The labor leader, who championed workers, women, immigrants and LGBTQ+ equality, died Wednesday,…
Elke Sommer, the striking blonde bombshell of German descent who was a mainstay of 1960s Hollywood comedies and espionage movies including “The Prize” and “A Shot in the Dark,” has died. She was 85. With big almond eyes and golden locks, often…
Dolores Huerta had spent decades advocating for labor rights and marginalized people when she went to a central California college and met a group of farmworkers’ descendants — many of them students who choked back tears over the then-94-year-old taking…
Mexican American labor activist Dolores Huerta died on Wednesday in her home in Bakersfield, California at 96. Huerta, an icon of Chicano and labor activism in the United States, died of cancer. Even though Huerta was born in New Mexico and…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Dolores Huerta's death on Wednesday provoked an outpouring of emotions from her allies on social causes and many others who were inspired by her legacy. They shared stories about becoming public servants, volunteering and organizing within their own communities…
Dolores Huerta, a trailblazing civil rights activist who spent her life fighting to improve the working conditions of farmworkers — and founder of the popular rally cry, “Sí, se puede,” — died in California on Wednesday. She was 96. Huerta’s work has helped…
She died at home in Bakersfield, California, after a battle with cancer, her family told the AP. Born in New Mexico in 1930 and raised in California, Huerta had longstanding connections to San Antonio through the city’s Mexican American civil rights…
Dolores Huerta, the labor and civil rights leader who co-founded the union that became the United Farm Workers of America, has died at 96, her family announced. The family shared the news Wednesday morning in a statement on Huerta’s official Instagram…
NEW YORK – Documentary maker Ken Burns has won a $250,000 prize for his “significant contributions to promoting knowledge and understanding of American history.” Burns is the inaugural winner of the David M. Rubenstein Prize for the Advancement of American History, presented…
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