More than a half-century ago, Dolores Huerta helped found the United Farm Workers Labor Union. Since then, her life and work have been honored in all sorts of ways, including having local high schools named after her to a pair of Vans shoes. The labor leader joins us to talk about the challenges facing farmworkers and what she makes of the debate on race in this nation.

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• Dolores Huerta Foundation