Authors Shane Burley, Joan Braune and Shon Meckfessel will discuss their research and contributions that went into the book, “¡No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis” on Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. at the Spokane Public Library (906 W. Main Ave.).
This spring, Paul Idiaghe is set to graduate from Whitworth University’s six-year-old engineering program. As a writer of poetry, an international student from Nigeria and a self-identified “unconventional person,” Idiaghe has struggled to fit into the private, predominantly white, Christian university.
The first Black woman to be ordained in the Episcopal Church, who was also a trailblazing lawyer, civil rights activist and writer, will be honored on the U.S. quarter next year.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, the Catholic Church’s primary voice on climate, will travel from Rome to speak on March 9 at 7 p.m. at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University. His talk is titled, “Caring for Our Common Home, in This World and with This Climate.”
Capacity expansion of a natural gas pipeline running under southeast Spokane Valley and western and northwest Liberty Lake will be the subject of a “People’s Hearing” on Monday evening, Feb. 13.
With trust in police and police training declining each year, according to polls, local sheriff’s chaplains act as ambassadors of hope and reconciliation between communities and their police departments — especially in light of Tyre Nichols’ fatal beating at the hands of five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee.