By Beth Becker WASHINGTON, D.C.—Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, has been named winner of the Berger-Marks Foundation 2015 Edna Award for Social Justice. The Edna Award, which [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
Just Mercy
By Maria Telesco Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 348 pages, $15. Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called him “America’s Nelson [...] Continue Reading
Shenandoah
By George B. Kauffman Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal by Sue Eisenfeld. University of Nebraska Press, $19.95 (paperback). Award-winning writer, hiker and history lover Sue Eisenfeld [...] Continue Reading
Fulton Mall Update: It Still Can Be Saved
By Ray McKnight On Feb. 27, 2014, the Fresno City Council voted 5 to 2 to proceed with the Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project, a plan to turn the pedestrian-only mall into a street. The city has [...] Continue Reading
AB 953: “We Are Not Targets” March on Sacramento
By Hannah Brandt At 6 a.m. on Sept. 2, a charter bus pulled up to the St. Rest Baptist Church in west Fresno to meet 40 bleary-eyed passengers headed to a rally in the state capital to promote AB [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor: Difficult Conversations on Race & Culture
By Camille Russell Ernesto Saavedra’s decision to leave the Community Alliance was a surprise and a big disappointment to me and others on the newspaper’s board. We were happy when he accepted the job [...] Continue Reading
John Lewis and Selma in Fresno
By Hannah Brandt Congressional Representative and civil rights leader John Lewis (D–Ga.) was a guest at the Warnors Theatre in downtown Fresno on Aug. 19. A discussion with Lewis' Central Valley [...] Continue Reading
The Idolatry of Whiteness
By Bryson White (Author’s note: The following is an excerpt from a sermon delivered at the First Mennonite Community Church on Sept. 20.) In Jeremiah 8, the “wise leaders” of the nation are [...] Continue Reading
Gandhi An Apostle of Peace and Nonviolence Celebration
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”—Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi, the great spiritual, social [...] Continue Reading
People Are Stupid!
By George B. Kauffman (Editor’s note: The sources for the information in this article are documented in the online version of the article, which is available at www.fresnoalliance.com.) People are [...] Continue Reading
La Caña
By Ernesto Saavedra This past summer, I was invited to check out a mural some friends of mine were working on located on the outskirts of the Tower District, specifically, on Olive between Arthur and [...] Continue Reading
The Trauma of Slavery and Paper Dolls
By Ernesto Saavedra (Author’s note: Leading up to Fresno’s Downtown and Tower District monthly ArtHop events, Kezia Harrell, an artist attending San Francisco’s Art Institute with roots in Fresno, [...] Continue Reading