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
Arts & Culture
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
Fresno Commemorates Dr. King’s Legacy
By Hannah Brandt On Jan 18, 2016 Fresno’s annual March, ‘Mountain of Food’ collection, and Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. began at Fresno City Hall with speeches from local leaders including [...] Continue Reading
Hmongstory40: Valley’s Hmong Citizens Celebrate 40 Years of History
By Vic Bedoian for Pacifica Radio, KFCF Fresno Forty years after immigrating to the United States from Southeast Asia, the Hmong community in Fresno celebrated with the opening of a major multi-media [...] Continue Reading
How A Lion Named Cecil Changed The World
By Gary Carter What happened with Cecil the Lion was horrible, but something else happened too. With his poaching, suddenly everyone was painfully aware of the horrors of trophy hunting. In response, [...] Continue Reading
Poets Are Passing From Our Lives
By Jemmy Bluestein I have a present to give the English-speaking world. It’s a virtually unknown poem of the late, great Fresno poet and former U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine. Though there have [...] Continue Reading
Discussion at Reedley Peace Center about Israel Palestine
By Hannah Brandt A Fresno State student recently back from Palestine spoke at the Reedley Peace Center on Jan. 15, 2016. She was born and grew up partially in the U.S., living first in New York City [...] Continue Reading
Godless Grace: How Non-Believers Are Making the World Safer, Richer and Kinder
By George B. Kauffman Despite the dramatic increase in the number of Americans who don’t affiliate with any religion (21% in 2014 General Social Survey), there is still a general perception that [...] Continue Reading
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