(Editor’s note: This is the story of Vance McKinney, as told to the author. McKinney is a truck driver (who hauls mostly agricultural produce) in a farmworker community. His father was a farmworker. [...] Continue Reading
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Yokuts Valley: Respect or Racism?
The Fresno County Board of Supervisors are making a last-ditch attempt to hold on to S— Valley and erase the town’s new name, Yokuts Valley. The supervisors voted 3-2 for a charter amendment that [...] Continue Reading
Japanese Concentration Camps in Images
In 1942, the infamous Executive Order 9066, signed by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ordered all Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast to be interned in [...] Continue Reading
The Passing of Comedian and Activist Tou Ger Xiong
The actor, comedian and activist of Hmong origin, Tou Ger Xiong, died on Dec. 11. According to a statement from Xiong’s family, he was murdered in Colombia after being kidnapped by criminals who [...] Continue Reading
Justice in Honduras?
Berta Cáceres was killed on March 3, 2016, one day before what would have been her 45th birthday. Cáceres was an Indigenous Lenca woman in Honduras who co-founded the COPINH—Consejo Cívico de [...] Continue Reading
Celebrating the 95th Anniversary of MLK’s Birth
On Jan. 15, the City of Fresno will celebrate the 95th birth anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an uncompromising champion of nonviolence, human rights and social justice. Since 1984, the [...] Continue Reading
Un Nuevo Comienzo
A principios de este año, un restaurante local se vio obligado a cerrar cuando fue bombardeado con acusaciones racistas infundadas. Varios meses después y después de mucha angustia, ha reabierto con [...] Continue Reading
Orden de Captura Contra Otro Implicado en el Asesinato de Berta Cáceres
A Berta Cáceres la asesinaron el 3 de marzo de 2016, un día antes de lo que hubiese sido su cumpleaños 45. Berta Cáceres era una mujer indígena Lenca en Honduras, cofundadora del Consejo Cívico de [...] Continue Reading
Barbed Wire Baseball
It is a date that will live in infamy—Feb. 19, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It disrupted the lives of more than 120,000 Japanese [...] Continue Reading
Responding Should You Witness a Hate Crime
A diverse group gathered at the Visalia Friends Meeting Hall for a training on what to do if you are in a situation where someone is being harassed because of the color of their skin, their sexual [...] Continue Reading
WWII-Era Internment Camp Unites Asians and Latinos
Mothers and grandmothers clutched children close on trains rolling through this dry stretch of south Texas, not knowing what waited for them at the end of the line. They were Peruvians of Japanese [...] Continue Reading
Campo de Concentración de la II Guerra Mundial une a Asiáticos y Latinos
Madres y abuelas abrazaban a sus niños en los trenes que circulaban por esta zona seca del sur de Texas, sin saber qué les esperaba al final de la línea. Eran peruanos de ascendencia japonesa, [...] Continue Reading