Jan. 20 was the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and the City of Fresno held its annual march and rally in commemoration of the civil rights leader. Fresno is unusual in holding a City-sponsored [...] Continue Reading
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Black Women Make History
BY CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA There is one African American woman currently serving in the California State Senate, Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D–Ladera Heights). It’s the same in the U.S. [...] Continue Reading
White Fog in Yokuts Valley
I grew up on the coast of Maine where fog rolled in so thick you couldn’t see the road ahead when you wanted to get somewhere. You had to inch forward at a few miles an hour, along the painted white [...] Continue Reading
Dialectics of Black Ideology in Age of White Reactionaries
Soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917, a number of American Blacks emigrated to Bolshevik Russia, the new pro-worker state. One noted emigre was a Minneapolis postal worker named Homer Smith Jr., [...] Continue Reading
Kamala Harris on Reparations
The first female vice president of the United States and a well-known member of the Democratic Party thrust into the presidential race, Kamala Harris has made a strong case for racial justice and [...] Continue Reading
The New Apostolic Reformation: All in for MAGA
In the early 2000s, I worked for a Christian publishing house that championed “church growth” and marketed books by New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) leaders. I’d like to share some insight and [...] Continue Reading
Statue of Nelson Mandela Unveiled at Fresno State
On Sept 12, a statue of Nelson Mandela was unveiled at Fresno State. The Nelson Mandela monument is the newest addition to the Fresno State Peace Garden, which houses monuments dedicated to Mahatma [...] Continue Reading
Central Labor Council Sponsored Page
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What Will Break the Spell?
A spell has been cast over the white evangelical world. What will it take to break the spell? Consistently, white evangelicals are a reliable voting bloc for the Republican Party. No matter how [...] Continue Reading
South-South Cooperation
A comprehensive cooperation framework in the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental and technical realms facilitates South-South. Developing nations pool their knowledge, skills, [...] Continue Reading
Another Scramble for Africa
Historians refer to the spread of European empires over Africa during the Age of Imperialism as the “scramble for Africa.” The scramble for Africa unfolded as a series of significant events that [...] Continue Reading
Gender, Misogyny, Race/Class Questions in Presidential Election
With President Biden’s withdrawal from his presidential bid, Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency. Kamala Harris’s parents gave her the [...] Continue Reading