Salazar stamp unveiled

Slain journalist honored by U.S. Postal Service and UofA’s Media Democracy and Policy Institute

The United States Postal Service together with the University of Arizona’s Media Democracy and Policy Institute recently unveiled a stamp commemorating the work of slain Hispanic journalist Ruben Salazar. Salazar is one of five individuals honored on a sheet of 20 stamps issued in April that honor American journalists. The other journalists featured on the stamps are Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk and Eric Sevareid. Salazar was a Mexican-American reporter for the Los Angeles Times who was killed by police on Aug. 29, 1970, while covering the National Chicano Moratorium March to protest the disproportionate number of Hispanics killed in the Vietnam War.