Nicholas Belardes

Commentary: How One Latino Community May Begin to Shed Six Decades of Confederate and Southern Imagery (OPINION)

The power structure is Trump happy, a lust-filled fervor infects them, one that the unwary might attribute to some kind of Viagra for political xenophobia, powered and fueled by little elephant-shaped pills.

  • Jul 19, 2020
  • 2:15 PM

Perspective: George Floyd Autopsy Appears Similar to California Brutality Case

Both men call out, cry into the same America, one in the darkness, one in the light.

  • Jun 2, 2020
  • 3:00 PM

David Sal Silva: An American Tragedy (Part Three)

Latino Rebels is running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nicholas Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ third post. You can read “Part One: Culture of Drugs” here, and “Part Two: Culture of Violence” here. (All photos here should be credited to Nicholas Belardes.) Part Three: Analysis Of A Protest BAKERSFIELD, […]

  • Jun 10, 2013
  • 11:37 PM

David Sal Silva: An American Tragedy (Part Two)

Latino Rebels is running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nicholas Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ second post. You can read the first post, “Part One: Culture of Drugs” here. Part Two: Culture of Violence BAKERSFIELD, CA – There is a solemnness to the surveillance […]

  • Jun 4, 2013
  • 1:09 AM

David Sal Silva: An American Tragedy

Latino Rebels will be running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nick Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ first post. Part One: Culture of Drugs BAKERSFIELD, CA – There’s a culture of drugs in the cities where we live in America. Amid the urban streets of […]

  • May 30, 2013
  • 11:44 AM

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