By David E. Roy The old man knew a lot and a lot of what he knew was uncut crazy. Like how every building had its own little soul sitting inside it. The man spent a lot of time thinking about souls, [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
Renowned Performing Arts Festival Returns
The Rogue Festival, Fresno’s completely uncensored theater and performing arts festival, returns to the Tower District March 1–10. The 17th annual Rogue Festival will present more than 200 separate [...] Continue Reading
Trust Black People: Black Political Engagement in Fresno
By Sarah Hayes Trust Black Women was the trending hashtag coming out of Alabama the day after the special Senate election there. Leading into the election, coverage echoed that the outcome would [...] Continue Reading
Candidate Without a Prayer
By George B. Kauffman Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt. By Herb Silverman. Pitchstone Publishing, Charlottesville, VA. 2012, $22.95. ISBN [...] Continue Reading
Chaos and Confusion at the Center: A Year Without Wisdom
By David E. Roy After living through the madness of 2017, I felt I had to make an effort to achieve some clarity and derive some meaning from the year’s intense and confusing events. One of my [...] Continue Reading
Why They Come from the Open Veins? Excerpts from the Sad History of Latin America
By Stan Santos In 1492, Columbus stumbles on an island civilization, calling the Lucayan, Taino and Arawak “Indians.” Their number is estimated to be around 300,000. Fifty years later, not two [...] Continue Reading
MLK
About 1,200 people marched in Fresno’s annual Martin Luther King Day March from St. John’s Church to a rally at Fresno City Hall on the morning of January 15. [...] Continue Reading
Hello America, Your President Is Racist
By Miguel Bibanco Editor’s note: This article is republished from The Know Youth Media with permission and was originally published at https://theknowfresno.org/. Hello America, your President is [...] Continue Reading
Damned Good Company
By George B. Kauffman Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts by Luis Granados, Humanist Press, 1777 T St. NW, Washington, DC, 2012, $15.00. ISBN 978-0-931779-25-1. The power [...] Continue Reading
What Was Net Neutrality?
By Osiris Godwin Net neutrality seems to be one of those buzzwords that whizzes past us every day. We don’t notice it or pay it much attention; much like a fern in an office, we just assume that it [...] Continue Reading
Straight from Our Roots: Coco by Pixar
By Raquel Enriquez (Translated by Lourdes Oliva) Miguel is 12 years old and wants to be a musician. He loves music so much that in his spare time, he sings and learns to play the guitar. But getting [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Protest to Protect Net Neutrality
By Bob Turner The call was sent out over the Internet. “The new chairman of the FCC was a top lawyer at Verizon. Now he’s calling for a vote to kill net neutrality...Join the Protest Dec. 7 at [...] Continue Reading