I first visited Stonewall and the surrounding neighborhood on a field trip for my Media & Sexuality course. The frigid February cold and wind made my eyes water, but stories of the famed riots while standing along the pier where Marsha P. Johnson’s body was found did the same.

Dolores Huerta is a labor and women’s rights activist. Born in 1930 in New Mexico, Dolores was the daughter of a coal mining father and...

Following a decade of political upheaval, social revolution, and cultural renaissance, the 1970s were an era fraught with the...