Josephine Talamantez, founder and board chair of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center<\/a>, said it\u2019s not the first time the name Chicano Park on the Bay was discussed.<\/p>\n Talamantez is also a founder of Chicano Park<\/a>, a National Historic Landmark, that is located a few blocks inland from the newly renamed park.<\/p>\n Josephine Talamantez stands for a portrait photo in Chicano Park on Sept. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n Talamantez said community members in the 1980s initially wanted to name the waterside park Chicano Park on the Bay to connect it with the larger Chicano civil rights movement, but it was ultimately named in Chavez\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen it became that name, we just thought, \u2018Okay, there\u2019s no way to change this,\u2019\u201d Talamantez said.<\/p>\n They did not want to undermine the farm workers\u2019 movement or thwart the recognition for Chavez, she explained.<\/p>\n Talamantez applauded the revival of Chicano Park on the Bay, decades after its initial proposal.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a validation that finally somebody is listening to what this community has to say,\u201d Talamantez said.<\/p>\n Talamantez said the mural All the Way to the Bay speaks to the history of advocacy for the community to have access to the water front. Photo taken Sept. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n The park is just the latest example of scrubbing Chavez\u2019s name from landmarks in San Diego. Earlier this year, the city renamed Cesar E. Chavez Parkway to Chicano Park Boulevard<\/a>. The San Diego College of Continuing Education also removed Chavez\u2019s name from its Barrio Logan campus. It\u2019s currently hosting meetings<\/a> to gather feedback for a new campus name.<\/p>\n Despite her support for renaming the park, Talamantez worries about the broader implications of erasing Chavez\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n \u201cI stand with the women who have made the allegations, but I do think there needs to be a process, not just wiping everything out,\u201d Talamantez said. \u201cThe history, in particular, is significant to our community.\u201d<\/p>\n Chavez, she added, \u201creally fought for farm workers and Chicano civil rights.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, Talamantez and other community members spoke in favor of renaming the park during public comment at Wednesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n Talamantez spoke during public comment at the Board of Port Commissioners meeting on Sept. 23, 2026. <\/p>\n Port district staff hosted public engagement sessions between May and July to gather name ideas. They also met with a community advisory committee, which included Talamantez, in August. The commissioners thanked the people who participated in the engagement sessions and spoke at the meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve sat here a long time and rarely have I seen this level of unanimity for the name of a park, or anything, for that matter,\u201d said Port Commissioner Dan Malcolm. \u201cI mean, the community has spoken loud and clear.\u201d<\/p>\n Talamantez hopes the next generation will continue to learn the history in Barrio Logan and be part of its story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Board of Port Commissioners on Wednesday voted to rename Cesar E. Chavez Park in Barrio Logan to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-474434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Josephine](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790275090_221_.jpeg\")
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