Tag: racial justice

This year’s Eastern Washington Legislative Conference entitled “Renewing Hope for the Future” will feature workshops on various issues that may help Spokane to better itself and its greater surrounding area.

YWCA Spokane is on a mission to ensure equity for all. Every April, YWCA's USA organization and allied groups hold local, community conversations about how to do this with local experts. Spokane's gathering will take place Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Women's Club of Spokane (1428 W. 9th Ave.) The event is also available on zoom with a registration.

With all the recent racist attacks and mass shootings, there is a lot to process as a community and to think through how we can move forward towards justice and transformation. Our next Coffee Talk brings together professionals in our community who will guide and inspire a discussion of how each of us can serve as agents of change.

We all suffer from institutional attitudes that perpetuate injustice. Until we begin to recognize humanity as one people, there can be no healing.

Here is my interpretation of those four steps that I think will be helpful for white folks wanting to join the journey of racial justice.

Austin Channing Brown, a prominent new voice on racial justice and author of "I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness," will be the featured speaker at Whitworth University for African American Heritage Month on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Weyerhaeuser Hall’s Robinson Teaching Theatre.