On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Orders No. 3 in Galveston, Texas. This order, given more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, marked the true end of [...] Continue Reading
Editorial
Letter to the Editor: Only Africans Can Do This!
For those who follow professional marathon races, this year we witnessed the first under two hour men’s marathon race. In April’s London Marathon race, Sabastian Sawe of Kenya broke the marathon [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Cool Compost Have you noticed the recent weather extremes? If you have a lawn or garden, you can help fight climate change by drawing down atmospheric carbon and locking it in the soil. A recent [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Election season is rolling through, a season we are all familiar with in Fresno. Alongside the two-and-a-half-ish seasons we get, the endless summers and the intermittent weeks of spring, we see new [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
As a long-time admirer of the Community Alliance’s work, it is a great honor to step into the role of editor, especially as we approach the paper’s 30th anniversary this September. I come to this [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
100th Anniversary of Black History Month The first celebration of the accomplishments Black Americans was in February 1926. That year, it was celebrated as Black History Week. February 1976 this [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
I was with the mailing crew for the newspaper in the office of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence on Van Ness Avenue last month when an anti-ICE protest march of students from Fresno High School came [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor
Hurtado Should Resign State Senator Melissa Hurtado posted on Facebook that Secretary of State Marco Rubio “focused on the issues and the importance of unity” during his remarks at the Munich [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Two events of national and international importance shook the progressive community in January. U.S. forces kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Jan. 3. Maduro might not have been the [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the editor
It’s Time for a Change Before the 2024 election, Donald Trump denied knowing about Project 2025 because it was so unpopular. He lied 30,000-plus times during his first term and continued to lie as [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
The annual fundraiser for the Community Alliance exceeded our expectations. We raised more than $20,000. There is a story about it by Mike Rhodes—with photos—in this issue. The event came at the [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Free Zoe On Dec. 3, convicted felon Zoe Rosenberg was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to pay over $100,000 in restitution. Her crime was rescuing four dying chickens from a Petaluma [...] Continue Reading