On Saturday, local community organizations Terrain, The Carl Maxey Center and The Black Lens are hosting a pop-up coronavirus vaccination clinic at the Black Lives Matter Mural from 4 to 8 p.m.
Rise Above, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering local Native youth with sports as its compass, is hosting a sports and wellness clinic at HUB Sports Center in Spokane Valley Monday, with a host of celebrity supporters in tow, including NBA Hall of Fame player and coach Lenny Wilkens, who led the Seattle Super Sonics to their only NBA championship in 1978, and actor Danny Glover.
As debate has swirled around the proposed new attendance boundaries of Spokane Public Schools, district staff and school board members have kept one goal at top of mind: Keeping kids from the same neighborhoods together as they move from elementary to middle to high school.
Spokane residents followed the nation’s urge to protest the murder of George Floyd last summer, and now activist Kurtis Robinson and other members of the community sort through a bag of emotions regarding former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s sentencing Friday for the killing.
