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Four pictures depicting the major issues surfacing with implementation of California's SB 743, which promotes bus ridership but will drive up housing costs

Latest State ‘Green’ Edict Discriminates Against Minorities: Lawsuit

May 7, 2020

A new law set to take effect in California on July 1st will drive housing prices way up. Some estimates put the number at hundreds of thousands of dollars per home. A statewide coalition of community leaders, opinion-makers, and minority advocates says the ...

Gilbert Padilla - United Farm Workers Co-Founder

This Unsung Valley Hero Fought for the Dignity of America’s Farmworkers

Opinion

February 17, 2020

Gilbert Padilla is one of the most unheralded and relatively unknown heroes who made major contributions to the national farmworker movement between 1962 and 1980. A co-founder of the National Farm Workers A...

Photo of Bayard Rustin, leader of the March on Washington in 1963

California Pardons Gay Civil Rights Leader in New Initiative

AP News

February 5, 2020

SACRAMENTO — California’s governor announced Wednesday that he is posthumously pardoning a gay civil rights leader while creating a new pardon process for others convicted under outdated laws punishing homosexu...

Walters: The Pardon Power, for Good or Ill

Dan Walters, CalMatters Commentary

January 27, 2020

The power of presidents and governors to overrule judges and juries by pardoning convicted felons or commuting their sentences is a vestige of ancient monarchial authority. As one history of the pardon power puts it: Dan Walters Opinion “Th...

Martin Luther King Holiday: Faith, Politics Mix This Holiday

AP News

January 20, 2020

ATLANTA — The nation is marking the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with tributes Monday recalling his past struggles for racial equality, observing the federal holiday named for him against the backd...

Activists Call for Federal Investigation into Fresno Police

David Taub

October 29, 2019

At times, Christina Pauline Lopez, overcome with the emotion of the moment, hid her face behind a sign depicting images of her son. Lopez was among the protesters at the Robert Coyle Federal Courthouse in do...

Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has Died

AP News

October 17, 2019

BALTIMORE — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from lon...

Kamala Harris Gets Personal, Delivers Stunning Blow to Biden

AP News

June 28, 2019

WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris spoke slowly but bluntly as she stared at Joe Biden, then began treating him as a hostile witness. Kamala Harris described a young girl in the 1970s who boarded such buses before d...

House Set to Approve Sweeping Bill to Expand Gay Rights

AP News

May 17, 2019

WASHINGTON — Democrats in the House approved sweeping anti-discrimination legislation Friday that would extend civil rights protections to LGBT people by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation o...

Photo of anti-Trump protest by members of MECHa de UCLA

Mexican American Group MEChA Eyes Name Change Amid Furor

AP News

April 3, 2019

MEChA, a Mexican American student group founded 50 years ago at the end of the turbulent 1960s, is considering a name change, highlighting the divisions between older civil rights leaders and college activists who are shunning traditional modes of ethnic ident...

Feds Cut Water to Exchange Contractors, Wildlife Refuges

Minneapolis Cop Arrested in Death of Handcuffed Black Man

Police Across US Speak out Against Minneapolis Custody Death

Mother of Louisville Police Shooting Victim Calls for Peace

'Rapid' COVID-19 Testing Finally Arrives in the Central Valley. Community Medical Already Processing Hundreds a Day.

Fresno Supervisors Approve Resolution to Delay Vehicle Miles Traveled Law

Over 300 Free COVID-19 Tests Done at NW Fresno Site

Law Pushed by Democrats Will Force You Into Buses, Van Pools, and High Rises

'Happy' Customers Stream Back to Fashion Fair

Don’t Bring a Corkscrew — Fresno State’s Tailgate Wines Soon in Cans

Tony Hawk Gets His Skateboard Kicks in Empty Lemoore Pool

Fallon Apologizes for Using Blackface in 20-Year-Old Skit

Walters: Who Should Pay for Pandemic Impacts?

Want a Real Education, California Students? Go on Strike!

Walters: The SF-LA Economic Gap Is Growing Wider

Opinion: COVID-19’s Fifth Column — American Health Choices

Eid al-Fitr Marks End of Ramadan, but COVID-19 Curtails Big Events

LIVE: Daily Briefing from Gov. Gavin Newsom

COVID-19 Brings a New Kind of Ramadan for Muslim Community

Must Muslims Fast for Ramadan During COVID-19?

This 2020 Presidential Forecast Says Trump Faces Historic Defeat Due to Terrible Economy

Battered California Republicans See Hope in Rare House Win

Biden Hires Chávez Granddaughter to Help on Latino Outreach

Trump Gets Ally as Ex-Navy Pilot Wins California House Seat

Latest State ‘Green’ Edict Discriminates Against Minorities: Lawsuit

This Unsung Valley Hero Fought for the Dignity of America’s Farmworkers

California Pardons Gay Civil Rights Leader in New Initiative

Walters: The Pardon Power, for Good or Ill

Martin Luther King Holiday: Faith, Politics Mix This Holiday

Activists Call for Federal Investigation into Fresno Police

Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has Died

Kamala Harris Gets Personal, Delivers Stunning Blow to Biden

House Set to Approve Sweeping Bill to Expand Gay Rights

Mexican American Group MEChA Eyes Name Change Amid Furor

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