Protecting Indigenous Rights and Stopping Discrimination Based on Caste According to Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias, the City of Fresno is the first city in California to [...] Continue Reading
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Can the Police Be Trusted?
California Attorney General Rob Bonta came to Fresno on Sept. 12 and held a forum with Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, a panel of community leaders and several grassroots community groups. The purpose of the [...] Continue Reading
The Rise of Black Studies
Beginning at Merritt College in Oakland in 1961, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton organized the Negro History Fact Group, which was the first Black history course offered in higher education. The course [...] Continue Reading
An Infamous Event That Sparked a “Forgotten” Memory
(Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of articles regarding the incarceration of Japanese Americans in 1942–1945. This project is made possible through a grant from the California Civil [...] Continue Reading
“First They Came…” Again
We are again in a period of racist ultranationalism and right-wing extremism. It’s not the first one. We can choose to defend those who are under attack now. Or we can wait until the attackers come [...] Continue Reading
Activists Remember the Chicano Moratorium 53 Years Later
BY MARCOS FRANCO (Editor’s note: Reprinted with permission from Caló News.) It wasn’t long after sheriff deputies rolled up on the more than 20,000 protestors waving Mexican flags and picket [...] Continue Reading
Un Infame Evento Que Despertó un Recuerdo “Olvidado”
(Nota del editor: este es el comienzo de una serie mensual de historias dedicadas al encarcelamiento japonés de 1942-1945.) Un día de verano del año 2000, el Dr. Isao Fujimoto (1933-2022) vino a [...] Continue Reading
“Fresno County Didn’t Do a Thing”
A Vigil for Bessie Walker Around 75 people gathered in Fresno’s Courthouse Park on Aug. 21 for a prayer vigil in memory of Bessie Walker. The date marked two years since Walker, a 27-year-old [...] Continue Reading
Acknowledgement and Apology of Historical Injustice
California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a formal apology acknowledging the state Attorney General Office’s past complicity in the unjust deprivation of Japanese Americans’ civil rights and civil [...] Continue Reading
“Down There” in West Fresno
A recent comment from a Fresno City Council member rang an old, all too familiar bell. When District 1 representative Annalisa Perea referred to West Fresno as “down there” in an interview with [...] Continue Reading
DeSantis, Anti-Woke and African American History
The great Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker once noted that “history’s potency is mighty. The oppressed need it for identity and inspiration, [and the] oppressor for justification, rationalization [...] Continue Reading
Jack Ortega: Friend, Mentor, Organizer (1929–2023)
Jack Ortega was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 7, 1929. He graduated from St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Alameda and went into the U.S. Army, serving in the Korean War as an artillery observer. [...] Continue Reading