Halima Aquino, M.A., launched the Voter Education and Engagement Project (VEEP) in California to better understand why people register but do not vote. The responses to her survey indicated, among [...] Continue Reading
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A Fresno Epiphany: Swearengin Video Offers Insights on Racism, White Privilege
By Kevin Hall Stark examples of institutionalized racism and White privilege in Fresno burst out publicly in October like a Charlottesville rally of Trump supporters. The tiki torches illuminating [...] Continue Reading
Bottom Line: The Causes of Social Ills in our Communities
By Javier Aguirre Recent headlines in the New York Times reiterate what many legal policy analysts have purported to be the truth, and that is that crime in America is on the rise. The nation [...] Continue Reading
Harvey Survivors Find Hope: From California to Corpus Christi
By Wasan Abu-Baker Editor’s Note: A version of this article was published in Kings River Life Magazine at [...] Continue Reading
North Korea Wants to Deter a U.S. Attack: That’s Why It Has Nukes
By Col. Ann Wright Editor’s note: This article originally appeared at TruthDig! on July 18, 2017. (The text has been edited with permission from Ann Wright.) The full text is at www. [...] Continue Reading
Transgender Malevolence Protest of No Camping Ordinance
By Zoyer Zyndel Trans-E-Motion, a community benefit organization that works to improve the lives of transgender people and their allies through education, support and advocacy in Fresno and [...] Continue Reading
ASSAULT ON VOTING RIGHTS: One of America’s Greatest Injustices Continues
By Hannah Brandt In the year since the November 2016 presidential election, many have weighed in on the results of that election and their causes. While no doubt a number of factors contributed, one [...] Continue Reading
Ready for Resistance, Any Day Now
By Rev. Dr. Christopher Breedlove My head is spinning of late, exhausted by the seemingly relentless pace of racists, bigots and gentrification vultures here locally in Fresno. Or, perhaps, the [...] Continue Reading
What Does It Take to Get Rid of Trump?
By George B. Kauffman My head is spinning! What does it take to get rid of Trump? Here are some of the recent developments that, in my opinion, are more than sufficient to get rid of him and put him [...] Continue Reading
