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Arts & Culture
Poetry Behind Bars
The following poems are written by individuals incarcerated in Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California. Some of the authors are poetry and drama students from the Alliance for California [...] Continue Reading
NPR Host Leads Forum on Climate Change and Inequality
By Tom Frantz and Hannah Brandt On March 9, 2016, Maria Hinojosa, host of the cutting edge NPR show Latino USA, came from New York to Sacramento to moderate a panel on Inequality and Climate Change [...] Continue Reading
The Glass Menagerie
By Cherylyn Smith Anyone who attends the current Good Company Players performance of “The Glass Menagerie” is in for a rare experience. Not only will the audience be mesmerized by a character evoking [...] Continue Reading
Women’s Art and Music Festival of Fresno in May
By Kathy Ayala A creative celebration for women and led by women is coming to the historic Tower Theater in May. The Women’s Art and Music Festival of Fresno (WAMFF) will take place Friday, May 6, [...] Continue Reading
Creating Change Through Humanism
By George B. Kauffman Roy Speckhardt, Creating Change Through Humanism, Humanist Press: Washington, DC, 2015; $18.99; ISBN 978-0- 931779-65-7 (paperback) A 2015 Pew Research Center report reported [...] Continue Reading
INAUGURAL TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY. YOU ARE INVITED!
You are cordially invited to the Inaugural Transgender Day of Visibility on Sunday, April 10th from 12PM-4PM at Alliant International University at 5130 E. Clinton Way 93727 Fresno, CA. The annual [...] Continue Reading
Reclaiming Dr. King and Rally for Justice at Fresno Pacific
By Hannah Brandt and Karen Crozier “Why America May Go to Hell” was to be one of Martin Luther King’s sermon in April of 1968. He gave it as a speech at a march of striking sanitation workers in [...] Continue Reading
Rite of Passage
On November 30, 2014, I received the rite of baptism at Community United Church of Christ in Fresno, CA. It was my third baptism: the first took place at a Methodist church in Illinois when I was an [...] Continue Reading
El Molcajete del Diablo
By Leonard Adame The sky is at its most ominous in the desert--it is the repository of snake-eyed glints, a place where molcajete stone is born distance doesn’t exist there nor does it in the [...] Continue Reading
“Hey, Hey, LBJ!” Anti-War Performance Comes to Rogue Festival
By Hannah Brandt In 1964, San Francisco native David Kleinberg dropped out of school to travel. He knew something was going on in Vietnam, but wasn’t too worried about being drafted. He thought it [...] Continue Reading
#LoveWins
The hashtag #LoveWins is being used to showcase supporters of marriage equality around the nation and across the world. Our #LoveWins photo shoot put the Valley into the virtual conversation on social [...] Continue Reading