By Micaela Cisneros-Nuñez Fifty. I expected maybe 50 women. I wasn’t even sure of that. But if I could get 50 women to march a mile with me, I knew we could get at least a little bit of [...] Continue Reading
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From the Editor – February 2017
By Hannah Brandt January felt like a tornado hit. In the storm, Barack Obama became the former president, Donald Trump became the current president, and the country commemorated the life of Martin [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – February 2017
The Blood of the Revolution By Akapl Kecholli When is enough going to be enough? We continue to allow our culture to be stolen, our dignity is lying in the street, leaking from our sons and daughters. [...] Continue Reading
DARWIN DAY
By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. Mayor Lee Brand has proclaimed February 12, 2017 to be “Darwin Day in the City of Fresno.” As our nation prepares to celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the [...] Continue Reading
Free Speech Victory in Fresno: Proof that You Can Stand Up to City Hall
By Mike Rhodes Conservatives and Republican politicians do a lot of talking about deregulation, being supportive of small businesses and cutting down on government bureaucracy. Why then did [...] Continue Reading
Locked Out
By Tiffany A. Potter Have you ever experienced a moment of sheer panic? A moment in time that has caught you so completely off guard that it takes a minute to process what’s actually happening? I’ve [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Wheezing and Choking in Malaga
By Tom Frantz A trip down South Chestnut Ave, in Fresno, will take you past Malaga a half mile north of Highway 99. A little over 200 homes, a school, and a park make up this small, [...] Continue Reading
The Cartoon History of Humanism
By George B. Kauffman The Cartoon History of Humanism: Volume One: Antiquity to Enlightenment. Words by Dale DeBakcsy, Art by Count Dolby von Luckner, Humanist Press, Washington, DC, 2015, paperback [...] Continue Reading
Ashley Swearengin’s Eight Years of Inequity and Neglect: Part 1
By Kevin Hall The central San Joaquin Valley with its economic base of industrial agriculture has been likened to a modern-day plantation system. As such, north Fresno is one of its antebellum [...] Continue Reading
10 Years Later: Fresno Politicians Still Toying with Black History and Nobody Cares!
By Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. (Editor’s Note: The first part of this article was written in December 2006, the latter part written in January 2017. It has been edited for clarity.) December 19, 2006: [...] Continue Reading
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS, Part 2
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Technological ingenuity, a traditional asset in the good-ol’-American-tradition, is no longer at the exclusive service of the conquering John Wayne and [...] Continue Reading
All They Will Call You: A Look at the Lost History of Deportation and a Tragic 1948 Flight
By Rubén Casas Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published at Tropics of Meta as part of Fresno State's Valley Public History Initiative All They Will Call You (The University of Arizona [...] Continue Reading