By Paul Thomas Jackson (Editor’s note: The sources for the information included herein are available in the online version of this article.) Those readers who celebrate Jesus’s birthday usually do so [...] Continue Reading
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The Rise of the Chicago Police Department
By Jonathan Luevanos The Rise of the Chicago Police Department (2013) by Sam Mitrani is a book that fills in a gap in Chicago’s working-class history and shows how and why police departments were [...] Continue Reading
The Chican@ Soul
By Jonathan Luevanos Identity is defined as the quality or condition of being the same in substance, composition, nature, properties or, in particular, qualities under consideration; absolute or [...] Continue Reading
Should Progressives Elect the Next Mayor of Fresno?
*** The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC *** By Mike Rhodes Fresno and the Central Valley has a reputation as a conservative stronghold in a state that is [...] Continue Reading
“Mississippi Fresno” An Interview with Dr. Floyd D. Harris
By Hannah Brandt “Being the only Black minister in Fresno on the front lines, in the trenches, I have a bulls-eye on me. But I am okay with that because being on the front lines gives people hope.” [...] Continue Reading
California Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Ministries Provides Aid to Summerset Apartments Victims
By Hannah Brandt By now, most of Fresno and the Central Valley knows about the desperate situation at Summerset Village Apartments in south central Fresno. The squalid conditions have made headlines [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County Office of Education Prior Pay Policy Perpetuates Wage Inequality
By Hannah Brandt On July 12, 2012, Aileen Rizo-Acosta was at a casual business meeting with several other colleagues from the Fresno County Office of Education’s math department. She works as a math [...] Continue Reading
Uprooting Racism Project Reactivated
By Vickie M. Fouts The Uprooting Racism Project grew out of a book discussion using Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel. It was sponsored by the Women’s [...] Continue Reading
WILPF January 2016
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING January 14 (second Thursday of each month), 7 p.m.–9 p.m. at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. Meetings are open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK January [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change: Effect on the Oceans
By George B. Kauffman (Editor’s note: The sources for the information included herein are available in the online version of this article.) The latest comprehensive assessment carried out by the [...] Continue Reading
The Spirit of Volunteering
By Ruth Gadebusch Last month, I used this column to write about trials and tribulations of volunteering, just how our overloaded lives were affecting and being affected by volunteering. Arguably, my [...] Continue Reading