RICHMOND, Va. — A judge issued an injunction Thursday barring the city of Richmond from removing any more Confederate monuments, a process that began last week after Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the statues cleared away amid weeks of protests over police brutality and racism. Richmond Circuit Court Judge Bradley Cavedo...
Tranquillity High Ag Science Teacher: ‘Tired of Hearing About Black Lives Matters’
A woman identified as an agriculture science teacher at Tranquillity High School in western Fresno County made racist comments about Black people and the Black Lives Matter movement in a conversation that sparked outrage after it was publicly posted on Facebook. "Tired of Black this black that ... why dont...
CEO Spews Racist Vitriol at Fresno Bar Server. She Caught It on Video.
Rebecca Hernandez has been working in customer service jobs for more than 10 years, but her shift Tuesday night at a Fig Garden Village tavern was her "No. 1 worst day ever" when she had to contend with an apparently intoxicated customer who assaulted her with racial slurs and profanity...
Most White Parents Don’t Talk About Racism With Their Kids
Though race and racism are at the top of Americans’ public discussion, most white parents don’t talk about those issues with their kids. Research on how white parents discuss race with their children is sparse. However, past research has shown that conversations about race, much less racism, are rare, even...
School Board President Who Posted Confederate Flag, ‘Proud to be White,’ Resigns
Sara Wilkins, the Madera County Board of Education president whose Facebook post of the Confederate flag and the phrase "I'm proud to be white" prompted community outrage, has resigned, Madera County Superintendent of Schools Cecilia Massetti announced Thursday morning. Wilkins' resignation came in a single sentence: “After 47 years of...
Madera Unified: ‘We’re Not Madera County School Board, and We Don’t Condone Racism’
Madera Unified School District wants everyone to know that it opposes racism and that it's not the same entity as the Madera County Board of Education, whose president posted on Facebook last weekend "I'm proud to be white" overlaid on an image of the Confederate flag. "Madera Unified School District...
Opinion: Black Workers’ Jobs Matter, and GOP Wants to Cut Them
By Hayley Brown and Dean Baker The wave of protests after the police killing of George Floyd has prompted a re-examination of racism in all areas of American society. In many cases, policies that may initially seem unconnected to race are major contributors to racial disparities. Current Republican efforts to force major cuts...
Are These Mailbox Flyers in South Fresno Racist?
Ebony Hailey will not let her 11-year old daughter, Rebekah, collect the mail anymore. Even though the box is across the street from Hailey's south Fresno home, after what she found there Monday, the daily mail is off-limits. Rebekah told her mom, an education administrator with Fresno Unified, that someone...
Why I (Almost) Put a BLM Bumper Sticker on My Car Even Though I Don’t Agree with the BLM Movement as a Whole
I was one of those people who said “Well of course black lives matter, but….” The problems I had (and still have) with several of the more radical organizations under the Black Lives Manner banner are substantial, and I think there are many parts of the movement that have destructive...
Fresno, Clovis Districts Investigate Racist Incidents Involving Student, Staff
The Fresno State chapter of the NAACP is asking Clovis Unified alumni to talk about whether they experienced or witnessed racial discrimination during their school years. The online survey is in response to reports that a Buchanan High School student posted racist content on Snapchat, including an image "explicitly promoting...