First-class honor for brave Latino journalist - Ruben Salazar

Ruben Salazar, a pioneering Latino journalist who was killed in 1970 by a tear gas canister fired by a sheriff’s deputy after an anti-war demonstration in Southern California, will be honored Tuesday with a commemorative U.S. postage stamp.

The stamp is to be unveiled in Washington, D.C., along with four other stamps recognizing courageous American journalists. In Los Angeles, where Salazar became the first Mexican American foreign correspondent and columnist at the Los Angeles Times, his life will be remembered on a day the City Council has declared Ruben Salazar Day.

Journalists and scholars remembered Salazar, who was 42 when he died, as a brave and intrepid reporter who opened doors for future generations of Latinos to enter U.S. newsrooms.”*

*From: http://www.sfgate.com
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