Stamp to honor newsman Ruben Salazar

The U.S. Postal Service has announced plans to issue a stamp in honor of a Hispanic newsman killed during a 1970 riot in Los Angeles.

The stamp commemorating Ruben Salazar, who was news director for the Spanish-language station KMEX at the time of his death, will be issued in 2008, Postmaster General John Potter said Monday. Potter described Salazar as “a ground-breaker for Latinos in this country” whose work spoke to everyone, The Los Angeles Times reported.