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National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated each year from September 15 to October 15, and celebrates the history and culture of Americans whose ancestors came from Mexico, Spain, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

President Lyndon B. Johnson established Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968, and President Ronald Reagan expanded it to a month-long celebration in 1988.

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A Song for Cesar
"A Song for Cesar" (2021 – 85 minutes)

In the 1960s and '70s, Cesar Chavez and farmworker activists formed an alliance with musicians and artists to help build a movement called "La Causa". A Song for Cesar tells the story of that alliance using first person accounts of artists, musicians, members of Chavez's family, and other key figures of the movement. Inspired by the spirit of the thousands of farmworkers who struggled for justice alongside labor leaders Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong, musicians Abel Sanchez and Jorge Santana's encapsulating tribute song bookends the film, highlighting the ways in which music and the arts were essential in building the farmworkers' movement.