CESAR CHAVEZ

SAGINAW, MI— For 17 years, Saginaw has held a luncheon celebrating and honoring the life and work of civil rights activist and American labor leader Cesar Chavez. At 4:15 p.m. Friday, March 31, at the Delta College downtown Saginaw campus parking lot on North Jefferson Avenue and Johnson Street, those looking to join the Cesar Chavez Solidarity Walk will gather to travel just under a mile in unity. During the walk, Stricker said loudspeakers will play a series of Chavez’s historical speeches, before hearing from guest speaker, John Ayala. Unity Walk held each year from which he drew his inspiration for the Solidarity Walk. For information on the Cesar Chavez Solidarity Walk or to help support it, contact Joseph Stricker at 989-992-9007.

FLINT TWP, MI -- Walk into Italia Gardens and you will notice an array of photos capturing the history of the Albert Barone family. Barone and wife Josephine started Italia Gardens in 1931 in Flint during the Great Depression. Italia Gardens in Flint Township is located at 3273 Miller Road, with the business also having restaurants in Davison Township and Grand Blanc. On a takeout basis only, Italia Gardens offers family pans, serving for five people salad bread and a choice of pasta. Chicken alfredo and barbecue ribs are another staple at Italia Gardens.

She will be the first Latina to ever hold this kind of top West Wing staffing role.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyI'm fed up with white liberals virtue-‘splaining to people of color what we should be saying, thinking, and feeling.As a longtime Latino columnist, I give my opinions for a living, and it’s part of the job description that you won’t ever be able to please everyone. This has led to many things being virtue-'splained to me over three decades, often by condescending white liberals who would talk down to me because they believed they were be

Most scores are reported through the Associated Press and the MHSAA. To add your missing score, email japurcell@mlive.com or tag @JaredPurcellDET on Twitter with the results. BOYS BASKETBALL SCORESThursday, Feb. 10Detroit Cesar Chavez Academy 62, Warren Michigan Math & Science 20Terrell Sykes led Chavez with 22 points and 10 rebounds. Tristan McFolley added 18 points and Murdock Taylor had 12 points. Waterford Mott 30, Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart 28Julianna Lemus led Mott with 10 points and Zoe Nalepa added eight points.

The Supreme Court has sided with California agriculture businesses in their challenge to a state regulation that gives unions access to farm property in order to organize workers.

At issue in the case was a California law that allows union organizers to enter farms to speak to workers during non-working hours for a set a number of days each year.

DETROIT – President Joe Biden brought a piece of Black history to the White House last month when he redecorated the Oval Office. A bronze bust of Detroit’s own Rosa Parks is now on prominent display. Artis Lane, a Detroit artist hand-crafted the bust. READ: Detroit artist’s sculpture of Rosa Parks featured in Biden’s Oval OfficeArtis Lane was born in Ontario. Ad“Sometimes I work from photographs, but she (Rosa Parks) came over to my home.

The Oval Office of the White House is newly redecorated for the first day of President Joe Biden's administration, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, including a bust of civil rights leader Rosa Parks. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)DETROIT – A Detroit artist’s work has been chosen to be prominently featured in President Joe Biden’s Oval Office. Related: Cesar Chavez’s son happy dad’s bust is in Biden Oval OfficeA bust of civil rights figure Rosa Parks, made by Detroiter Artis Lane, is one of the new pieces of art decorating the Oval Office. Lane said she’s honored that one of her sculptures has been included in the Oval Office. Lane’s portrait and sculpture work includes Nelson Mandela, 40th President Ronald Reagan, 45th President Barrack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama and more.

It might have been more than a half-century ago, but the impact of the Delano grape strike will always be felt -- not only in Hispanic history, but labor history in general.

Obama: Immigration reform "is going to happen" Praising the legacy of Cesar Chavez, President Obama says an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws is "not a matter of if, just a matter of when."