Dedication Ceremony with Ms. Huerta: Saturday, May 16, 10:00 a.m.
New L.A. mural pays tribute to labor & civil rights icon Dolores Huerta on AHF’s historic Barclay Hotel in DTLA
LOS ANGELES (May 13, 2026) – This Saturday, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and its affiliate Housing Is A Human Right (HHR) will host a dedication ceremony of a new tall wall mural honoring Dolores Huerta, renowned American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers Union, by world-renowned Los Angeles muralist Robert Vargas. The mural, titled “Walking into History,” is on the north side wall of the Barclay Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, one of Housing4Humanity’s affordable housing hotels for formerly homeless and extremely low-income individuals. Huerta, who turned 96 on April 10, is expected to be in attendance in her first community appearance since her recent extraordinary disclosures to the New York Times.
WHAT: DEDICATION CEREMONY: honoring labor and civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, Robert Vargas ‘Walking into History’ mural
WHEN: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: Barclay Hotel, 103 W. 4th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (rear North-facing wall)
Parking & event held in Paragon Parking lot: 340 S. Spring St. 90013
NOTE: enter on Spring St., Main St. parking entrance will be closed or restricted
WHO:
Dolores Huerta, honoree
Robert Vargas, muralist
Michael Weinstein, AHF President
Hon. Maxine Waters, U.S. Representative (D-CA 43rd Congressional District)
Yvonne Wheeler, Secretary/Treasurer, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
Angelica Salas, Executive Director, Coalition for Humane and Immigrant Rights
Susie Shannon, Policy Director, Housing Is A Human Right
Emcee: Carlos Marroquin, National Director, AHF’s Food for Health
For MEDIA RSVPs, PLEASE CONTACT: [email protected] or via call or text: 323.791.5526
Robert Vargas’ Los Angeles portfolio includes a landmark 150-foot-tall mural of baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani in L.A.’s Little Tokyo, a Boyle Heights mural honoring the L.A. Dodgers’ late, great Fernando Valenzuela, two murals celebrating AHF’s Food for Health program at its food pantry location at the Sinclair Hotel in Westlake/MacArthur Park, and a wall mural on the side of FairOaks Burger in Altadena, CA, a critical resource and center of community following the Eaton wildfire in Pasadena last year.
Sponsors of Vargas’s ‘Walking into History” mural include the following donors to the Dolores Huerta Foundation:
- AIDS Healthcare Foundation
- United Domestic Workers/AFSCME Local 3930
- Eva Longoria Foundation
- California Community Foundation
- SEIU Local 2015
- Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL CIO
- Honorable Lindsay Horvath, Los Angeles County Supervisor, District 3
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 11
- St. John’s Community Health
- ACTS LAW
