Did you know this week was Workers’ Memorial Week? Yup! Worker’s Memorial Week happens annually, with different regions hosting events daily to acknowledge and pay tribute to the workers who
¡Buenos dÃas folks! I hope youâre all staying safe and doing well. Grab your coffee or tea and get settled in, weâve got some things to chat about.
It seems plenty of people were mad about my last article and the subject of racism in Kings County and that is fine, people have a right to be mad. Sit with that emotion, make space for it. What is it about what I wrote that makes you mad? Is it because racism is an uncomfortable subject?
If talking about racism that you donât personally experience makes you uncomfortable, imagine how uncomfortable it is to experience it. If what makes you mad is that I had the audacity, then, like my mother-in-law always says, âYou can get glad in the same pants you got mad in.â
Life Again?: The top 10 stories of 2020 [The Hanford Sentinel, Calif.]
Dec. 21 HANFORD 2020. The year that absolutely no one will forget. Littered with multiple divisive issues, none bigger than COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement, the year had multiple memorable moments in Kings County.
After hours of combing through hundreds of stories I wrote, here are my top 10 of 2020.
1. Hundreds attend Black Lives Matter protest at Hanford Civic Auditorium
HANFORD With Hanford being a staunch and overtly conservative area, organizers for the Black Lives Matter protest in June were hoping for 50 people to show up. Instead, what transpired was a sea of support at the Hanford Civic Auditorium with more than 500 people standing in solidarity for one cause.