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Spokane's Black Community News Source
June 13th, 2026

Opinion


This content reflects the opinions of the writers. Learn about the differences between a news story and an opinion column.

  • Digital Equity

    Digital Equity

  • From the Editor: Weaponizing the law, protecting wealth imbalance, and amplifying false equivalence: It’s all strategic

    From the Editor: Weaponizing the law, protecting wealth imbalance, and amplifying false equivalence: It’s all strategic

  • From the Water’s Edge: Earth Day is every day!

    From the Water’s Edge: Earth Day is every day!

  • Intentional Focus: Bias Factor

    Intentional Focus: Bias Factor

  • Mental health focus: Protect Black women

    Mental health focus: Protect Black women

  • Negotiating disenfranchisement: The new poll tax and the erosion of black political power

    Negotiating disenfranchisement: The new poll tax and the erosion of black political power

  • Past Is prelude: ethnocentrism and the current state of America

    Past Is prelude: ethnocentrism and the current state of America

  • Powerful Voices: Building future educators

    Powerful Voices: Building future educators

  • Roots and Wings: The glue that holds us together: A mother’s love through generations

    Roots and Wings: The glue that holds us together: A mother’s love through generations

  • Seeing yourself in the stars: The sky was never the limit

    Seeing yourself in the stars: The sky was never the limit

  • The long reach of a teacher’s love he came back for her

    The long reach of a teacher’s love he came back for her

  • Voter ID and voter suppression: A historical and contemporary assessment through a Black Lens

    Voter ID and voter suppression: A historical and contemporary assessment through a Black Lens

  • When leadership fails, accountability Is due: Apologize to Dawn, Geno

    When leadership fails, accountability Is due: Apologize to Dawn, Geno

  • Why summer learning matters: Building a meaningful summer program at home

    Why summer learning matters: Building a meaningful summer program at home

  • Community Focus: What is community?

    Community Focus: What is community?

  • From the Editor: The unfortunate mirror of horror

    From the Editor: The unfortunate mirror of horror

  • Intentional Focus: Modern-day lynchings, oppression must be unpacked

    Intentional Focus: Modern-day lynchings, oppression must be unpacked

  • 'One nail at a time': NAACP perspective from Spokane Civic Theatre's community conversation

    'One nail at a time': NAACP perspective from Spokane Civic Theatre's community conversation

  • Survival in the Body: Violence, birth and choosing life

    Survival in the Body: Violence, birth and choosing life

  • The living currency of power: From the Antebellum ‘fancy trade’ to the Epstein files

    The living currency of power: From the Antebellum ‘fancy trade’ to the Epstein files

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