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Racism
Who Will Stand in Solidarity with These Women?
On May 23, Fresno City Council members heard from three traumatized women who were attacked by an Islamophobic man at Porchfest in the Tower District. (See also “Hate Speech and Crimes.”) Speakers [...] Continue Reading
Hate Speech and Crimes
Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone or commit violence against targeted [...] Continue Reading
Japanese Incarceration Panel Brings History to Young People
On April 24, about 90 people filled the Forum Hall Auditorium at Fresno City College to listen to Dale Ikeda and Marion Masada talk about the Japanese incarceration during World War II. From 1942 [...] Continue Reading
La Discriminación Antilatina Creó la Generación ‘No Sabo’
(Nota del Editor: la siguiente nota se reproduce con el permiso de Caló News) Los latinos en Estados Unidos tienen una identidad cultural que es rica y diversa, con elementos característicos, como [...] Continue Reading
Black Women Reds and Black Women on the Liberal Left
As we left February, which was African American History Month—traditionally referred to as Black History Month—we had Women’s History Month in March. Each month’s purpose is to highlight and celebrate [...] Continue Reading
Marion Masada: Survivor, Historian, Teacher
Marion Masada is a survivor of one of America’s most tragic and misguided actions. As we prepared for our interview, she gently admonished me. “Call it a concentration camp, please,” she advised. This [...] Continue Reading
Day of Remembrance
It was an historically ironic location for the Japanese American Citizens League’s annual Day of Remembrance—the Fresno Fairgrounds, where thousands of American citizens were held for months living in [...] Continue Reading
No Whitewashing the Past
(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
A New Beginning
In early 2023, a Fresno restaurant was forced to shut down when it was bombarded by baseless racist accusations. Several months later and after much heartache, it reopened with a new name and a new [...] Continue Reading
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