Los Angeles Times: “It took three decades of battles and lobbying for Cesar Chavez’s name and likeness to grace hundreds of buildings, roads, parks and schools.”

“It is taking just days for them to come down.”

“In the two days after allegations emerged that the famed farmworker rights leader and Chicano figure sexually assaulted minors and fellow labor icon Dolores Huerta, Chavez is being erased at an unprecedented rate. This is especially true in California, where his fight for agricultural workers’ rights was cemented in state history.”

New York Times: Public references to Cesar Chavez are being removed across the U.S.

The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement.

“The Trump administration’s campaign to remove National Park Service exhibits that ‘inappropriately disparage’ historical figures is bogged down more than nine months after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum set it in motion,” Politico reports.

“Many park personnel on the ground now are unsure if NPS will soon demand changes at many parks or leave things as they are, said a park superintendent… The effort has reached a ‘nebulous’ phase, the superintendent said, with some parks moving forward with edits and others still waiting for changes to be approved.”

John Judis: “Trump himself may soon be disgraced, but he and his administration have set in motion long-term changes that are going to be with us for the foreseeable future. Trump, it is increasingly clear, is a figure of enormous historical significance who is reshaping America and the globe in ways that will not easily be undone by Democratic wins in future elections.”

“Liberals, naturally, would like to believe the opposite: that once they triumph at the ballot box, all can go back to normal…”

“This could not be more wrong. And the ill-conceived but also era-defining war in Iran — the seventh country that Trump has attacked in his second term — is just the latest manifestation of how Trump is irrevocably changing our world.”

Charleston Post & Courier: “Alvin Greene, who went from political obscurity to becoming a S.C. Democratic Party folk hero by walking off the street and winning the party’s 2010 U.S. Senate nomination before disappearing back into obscurity, has died. He was 48.”

Founding father and slave owner Caesar Rodney, “whose statue in Delaware was removed in 2020 amid calls for racial reckoning, will be given a position in honor in Washington by the Trump administration as part of celebrations of the nation’s 250th birthday,” the New York Times reports.

“The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a “rainbow coalition” of the poor and forgotten made him the nation’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of Barack Obama, died on Tuesday. He was 84,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Jackson picked up the mantle of Dr. King after his assassination in 1968 and ran for president twice, long before Mr. Obama’s election in 2008. But he never achieved either the commanding moral stature of Dr. King or the ultimate political triumph attained by Mr. Obama.”

Washington Post: “Rev. Jackson’s oratorical style, like the civil rights movement, was rooted in the Black churches of the South. He would begin slowly, in an almost conversational tone, and gradually build to a crescendo that left some listeners in tears.”

“Vice President JD Vance’s X account posted and then deleted a recognition of the Armenian genocide after he paid his respects at a memorial in the country on Tuesday,” CNN reports.

G. Elliot Morris: “An alternative theory of the 1992 election is that Bill Clinton won because the economy was terrible and voters blamed the incumbent, not because he moved to the right on crime, welfare, and race.”

“If that’s true, then almost any Democrat could have won in 1992. Perhaps the Democrats could do more for their constituents if they stop looking in the rear mirror.”

“Kelly Neumann, a prominent Michigan Democratic fundraiser who is supporting several major Democratic candidates in the state, shared a social media post on Veterans Day in 2024 honoring her grandfather, who served in the Nazi regime’s army in World War II,” Jewish Insider reports.

The remains of a former Oregon mayor Edwin Asher have been identified two decades after his disappearance, according to the forensics laboratory that helped confirm the ID, CBS News reports.

A social media post from the Department of Labor appears to echo a Nazi-era slogan from the early 20th century, USA Today reports.

The post: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.”

It was an alarming echo of one of the central slogans used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party: “One People, One Realm, One Leader.”