He never really felt he belonged, except on the team. And they called him a “Token." A few years ago I watched the movie, "McFarland, USA" about a cross country team in a largely agricultural, small town, in the San Joaquin Valley. The McFarland boys cross country team won...
Sustained Political Action And Education, Not Violence, is How to Overcome Racism: Fiala
GV Wire talked to Fresno State philosophy professor Andrew Fiala this week about the protests that have erupted nationwide and around the world in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man, in the custody of Minneapolis police. Fiala, who directs the university's Ethics Center, talks about...
FUSD Superintendent: ‘a Time to Acknowledge That Pain and Hurt’
Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson said Tuesday that he joins with the rest of the community in mourning the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a death that has sparked protests both peaceful and violent across the country. Nelson said Floyd's killing has caused pain and...
Surrounded by Fresno Police in Case of Mistaken Identity, ‘The Kid is Scared to Death’
Fresno Unified board president Keshia Thomas says she well understands the anger boiling over in violent protests across the nation in reaction to the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. She knows what it's like when police wrongly target a black man or youth because it happened to her...
Raiders QB Derek Carr ‘Disgusted’ by Floyd Video, Calls for End to Hate
Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr used his platform as a high-profile Christian athlete Friday to denounce the death of George Floyd and call for the end of racism and hate in America. "I don't know what it's like to have a different skin color so I won't pretend to...
Questions of Racism Linger as Harry, Meghan Step Back
LONDON — When accomplished, glamorous American actress Meghan Markle married Prince Harry in 2018, she was hailed as a breath of fresh air for Britain’s fusty royal family. That honeymoon didn’t last. Now the couple wants independence, saying the pressure of life as full-time royals is unbearable. And a debate...
NBC, Union Investigate ‘America’s Got Talent’ Racism Report
LOS ANGELES — NBC and the guild that represents television performers said they are investigating Gabrielle Union's allegation that she was fired as a judge on “America’s Got Talent” because she complained of racism and other on-set issues. The Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists issued a...
Leading White Democrats Court Black Votes; Some Find Trouble
ATLANTA — Coming out of their debate in a key center of black America, the leading Democratic presidential contenders aimed for the party’s crucial black and minority vote, with the scramble putting internal party tensions on display. From black protesters disrupting Elizabeth Warren to the lone black woman in the race chiding...
Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has Died
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 longstanding health problems. He was 68. Cummings was a...
Biden: Racism in US Is Institutional, 'White Man's Problem'
WASHINGTON — Racism in America is an institutional "white man's problem visited on people of color," Vice President Joe Biden said, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump and hold him responsible for deepening the nation's racial divide. Taking aim at incendiary racial appeals by...