2019: A year of new faces, new sounds and new developments in music. We saw the spectacular emergence of interesting artists like Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, Summer Walker and more, but who should stand out most within the annoyingly long list of new artists? The new face of rhythm and blues: Ari Lennox. Courtney Salter, known professionally as Ari… View Post
In June of 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. led a march to Ratcliffe Stadium to present a speech to thousands of Fresno residents. Nearly 4 years later, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. To honor him, Fresno hosts an annual walk that begins in front of St. John’s Cathedral and marches through the streets of… View Post
“I wanna get freaky on camera. I love when we get freaky on camera.” No, that is not a line from an X-rated film. It is the lyrics to “Cyber Sex,” the intro track of the masterpiece album that blended pop, rap, pink bubblegum, and the cherry emoji Twitter that Doja Cat gave the world earlier this month. Her second… View Post
When people think of agriculture, most picture a farmer cultivating their crops and raising livestock. And yes, that’s a huge part of what agriculture is, but it’s also much more than that. Agriculture is a science, a complex and ever-growing field that requires a lot of conservation, management and data. In the San Joaquin Valley, where agriculture continues to be… View Post
“After Pearl Harbor, there were talks about rounding us up, to which we began calling ourselves Japanese-Americans. Up to that point, we just referred to ourselves as Japanese, but after that we began using that hyphenated term.” Saburo and Marion Masada are survivors of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese-Americans to be put in camps after… View Post