L.A. Material

While most of the world associates Dolores Huerta primarily with the long, flat fields and orchards of the San Joaquin Valley where she spent her early years organizing farmworkers, she also loomed large over Los Angeles politics.

Huerta, who died on Wednesday at the age of 96, felt both bigger than life and yet grounded and familiar — like you could turn a corner and she would be there.

At the link in bio, L.A. Material’s @antocere reflects on Huerta’s legacy and impact on L.A. in today’s newsletter.