#TBT The 2017 Bulldog Marching Band Prepares for the Season

August 13, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

#TBT Throwback Thursday - Image of a Bulldog Marching Band Member in uniform holding his fist up.

In normal times, for a couple of weeks leading up to the start of the Fall semester, the buildings’ empty halls begin to come alive as the Bulldog Marching Band assembles for their annual Band Camp. The sounds of drums reverberate off walls around the campus as student musicians prepare to entertain during the back to school festivities and ensuing football season.

#TBT America’s Story: Japanese American Experience

August 6, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Saburo and Marion Masada tell their story at the Henry Madden Library

In this video posted by the Henry Madden Library, Saburo and Marion Masada recount their story growing up in the incarceration camps during World War II and life before and after the war. They also tell the larger story of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II in general.

#TBT – Communication Students host TEDx event at Fresno State

July 23, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Five speakers and one musician took to the TEDx stage in the Wahlberg Recital Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, for an afternoon designed to discover new ideas and spark conversations within our community.

#TBT Gandhi and King on the “Arduous Beautiful Struggle”: Lessons in Going Forward

July 9, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

#TBT - Dr. Mary Elizabeth King and Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.

On the evening of Oct. 10, 2019, Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. took the stage in the Satellite Student Union where he talked about his journey discovering Gandhi and his principles of non-violence and working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to build the civil rights movement in the United States. Through Gandhi’s philosophy, Lawson […]

#TBT A new leading character: Telling untold stories to inspire youth

June 25, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

“When I got cast, I immediately called my dad and I said, ‘Dad, I’m a little brown girl playing a little brown girl!’”

#TBT Sherley Anne Williams 1986 reading at Fresno State

June 18, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Sherley Anne Williams - February 5, 1986, in the Conley Art Auditorium (CA 101)

“I hope that in the poems that I read tonight, about Fresno and the Valley, that you will recognize some of the landscape and some of the experiences.” – Sherley Anne Williams, February 5, 1986

#TBT Travis ‘Hype Man’ Morris makes a movie

June 11, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

Within weeks of his viral video posting, Travis Morris appeared on several news programs, including ABC’s Good Morning America, when his dream came true — Ellen DeGeneres invited Travis on her show.