By Mike Rhodes In May of this year, a Community Alliance newsstand went missing on the corner of Kern and N streets, just outside a Starbucks. Peter Maiden, the newspaper’s distribution manager, [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
From California to Oaxaca and Back
By Patsy Mejia Recently, I had the distinct privilege to participate in a pilot program initiated by the Mexican consulate aimed at reconnecting university students with parents or grandparents of [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor — August 2019 — Musick Creek Confluence Property
Musick Creek Confluence is purchasing 134 acres of forest land near Shaver Lake (we are in six-month escrow, with five months to go!). The price is small, the value is great. We have been caring for [...] Continue Reading
Floyd Harris III: Southwest Fresno Student, Activist and Cheerleading Champion
By Hannah Brandt While most four-year-olds are preoccupied identifying barnyard animals, learning the alphabet and playing patty-cake, Floyd Harris III accompanied his father, Rev. Dr. Floyd [...] Continue Reading
Why We Can’t Wait: Being Black in the Cannabis Industry
By Cesar Casamayor and Gidai Maaza There is unfinished business when it comes to cannabis legalization—the trauma-filled legacy of the War on Drugs within the Black community, especially on young [...] Continue Reading
A Piece of Time
In high school, the future seemed Intriguing, I could be anything. A time when friends were Abundant like a colorful Crop for the year. One, a mature sister with an Encouraging [...] Continue Reading
A Piece of Time
In high school, the future seemed Intriguing, I could be anything. A time when friends were Abundant like a colorful Crop for the year. One, a mature sister with an Encouraging [...] Continue Reading
Eulogy for Micaela Rangel
By Benny My grandmother grew up in the age in Mexico following the Mexican revolution. Her mother, my great grandmother, grew up in the days when families in the pueblos would dig holes in the [...] Continue Reading
Eulogy for Micaela Rangel
By Benny My grandmother grew up in the age in Mexico following the Mexican revolution. Her mother, my great grandmother, grew up in the days when families in the pueblos would dig holes in the [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Constitution and Egalitarian Marriage
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The process of creating a new constitution was completed with the approval of the Cuban people in a referendum process that took place on Feb. 24, 2019. It was a [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Constitution and Egalitarian Marriage
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The process of creating a new constitution was completed with the approval of the Cuban people in a referendum process that took place on Feb. 24, 2019. It was a [...] Continue Reading
Keep Free Speech Alive
By Mike Rhodes Thanks to the generous support we have received from our wonderful readers, we have been able to print the May 2019 issue of the Community Alliance newspaper. If you appreciate this [...] Continue Reading