By Ronald Martin (Editor’s note: The following piece is the author's reaction to comments made by KMJ radio host Jim Franklin about Nora O’Donnell’s interview of Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes. The [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
Music Is Your Only Friend
By Michael D. Evans With shelter-in-place and venues being shut down, live music hasn’t been an option since the pandemic began. And YouTube concerts just aren’t the real thing, although I am [...] Continue Reading
Where Do We Go From Here?
By Mike Rhodes We know about the crisis in the newspaper industry, how the Internet and social media have strangled their primary source of income from advertising and how newspapers all over the [...] Continue Reading
I Am Indigenous
Whitman Style Free Verse Poem by Richard D. Iyall I am indigenous to this land. Yes, I am. Indigenous I am.I am a member of the Cowlitz Tribe, whose sacred landis under siege in Washington, the [...] Continue Reading
Protest for Breonna Taylor in Fresno
By Peter Maiden Alluvial Avenue in front of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno was the site of protests every Friday in June in honor of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered by [...] Continue Reading
Hedge Fund Commits to Local Journalism in the Wake of McClatchy Takeover
By Vic Bedoian McClatchy newspapers, the nation’s second largest newspaper chain, was purchased at auction by Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey–based hedge fund. McClatchy, which began [...] Continue Reading
Tulare County During the Pandemic –The Hard Price of Poverty
A photo essay by David Bacon Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged last week that the coronavirus crisis is expanding far faster among eight rural counties in California’s Central Valley than in the [...] Continue Reading
A Mural of Vanessa Guillen is Unveiled, with a Vigil
By Peter Maiden Around 75 people attended a vigil in Fresno on July 18 in honor of Vanessa Guillen. The vigil was held at 717 N. Fresno Street, where a mural featuring her likeness had just been [...] Continue Reading
I Am a Book
A Free Verse Poem by Richard Iyall I am peace. I am love. I am the light from high above. I am the light that shines within. I am the spark that makes you grin. I am a book upon on a [...] Continue Reading
Teatro Inmigrante: New Theater Project 2020–21
(Editor’s note: Teatro Inmigrante is the brainchild of Agustín Lira and Patricia Wells, local artists with roots in the farmworkers’ movement originated in the 1960s in the Central Valley.) In [...] Continue Reading
The Power of Art in Times of the Pandemic
By Community Alliance Staff The “Lift Every Voice” mural project started June 13 on H Street, across from Chukchansi Park, where a group of local artists painted a mural under the theme “Black [...] Continue Reading