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THOUSANDS GATHER PEACEFULLY IN SPOKANE AT BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST | PAGE 3

MINORITIES DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED

BY CORONAVIRUS | PAGE 8

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ONLINE RESOURCES FOR HOMEWORK HELP DURING SPRING In a previous article, The Communicator provided resources for accessing technology during SFCC’s all-online spring quarter. This article mentioned how to gain access to WiFi while campus is closed. Recently, though, SFCC’s IT department has installed WiFi hotspots within four of the campus parking lots for students to use within their cars, maintaining proper social distancing. These same WiFi hotspots are also available on SCC’s campus.

Installation was complete on May 20, and the hotspots were installed specifically for student use during COVID-19.

According to Rick Sparks, Courtesy of CCS IT’s chief information officer, both SFCC and SCC’s presidents, Drs. Kimberlee Messina and Kevin Brockbank, “requested expanded WiFi coverage” for students who “may not have adequate WiFi at home.” The WiFi is available for faculty and staff usage as well, said Sparks.

The WiFi hotspots are currently located within SFCC parking lots one, four, six, and nine (P9, P6, P1, and P4). Though the hotspots don’t encompass the entire lots, the zones where coverage is available offer plenty of room for those needing to use it, as shown on the campus maps provided by Sparks. SCC parking lots one and two have WiFi hotspots with lot two being entirely encompassed by the WiFi hotspot, according to the map of SCC’s campus.

Students, faculty and staff are able to access the WiFi by logging in with their Bigfoot email and ID number as if they were using a school computer.

Thanks to the efforts of the IT department, as well as the requesting of the implementation from the CCS presidents, students are able to have reliable access to WiFi during this all-online quarter, provided they have access to individual transportation. -Ollie Fisher

NEWS 3 BLACK LIVE MATTER PROTESTS 10 INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL GRADUATION 12 BLM PROTESTS CONT.

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4 CORONAVIRUS AND MINORITIES 5 MINORITIES CONT. 6 SFCC MUSIC MAKERS 7 MUSIC MAKERS CONT. 11 GATEWAY & RUNNING START STUDENTS

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Black lives matter protests in Spokane Thousands gather in downtown Spokane for a peaceful BLM protest Allison Manion The Communicator Thousands gathered in peaceful protest for the Black Lives Matter movement on Sunday, May 31, at the Red Wagon in downtown Spokane. In the memory of George Floyd and other black victims killed by the police, people from all backgrounds showed up to peacefully march to the Spokane County Courthouse. Motivational speaker Le Taxione, who recently spoke about gang violence and his non profit organization NSTEP at SFCC, was one of the people at the head of the protest and spoke to the protestors before they made their way to the courthouse. Le Taxione talked about peace and justice for the black American victims of police brutality.

The protest moved to the courthouse, marching through downtown onto the front lawn.

Thousands of protestors chanting phrases such as “I can’t breathe,” “No justice, no peace, no racist police.” Emotions within the crowd ran high as they chanted.

Protestors took a knee in front of the police for nine minutes, representing about the same time Floyd was forced on the ground by police. The protestors stood for hours before the police barricade and pleaded with them to take a knee in respect for the black lives lost.

After hours of heartbreaking stories being told, protesters reasoning with the police and giving evidence of the unnecessary injustices that the black community has been facing, one by one, the officers all started taking a knee. This was the protesters’ and police’s way of showing that the people don’t want violence, they just want justice. Information regarding protests, petitions and actions to take have been included on this page for those willing and able to provide resources.

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Allison Manion | The Communicator People from the Spokane community masked up, and went out with signs and determination.

How to stay safe at protests: • Bring a mask and something to cover your eyes.

• Bring water and stay hydrated.

• Do not go alone, stay with someone else and look out for eachother.

• Be calm and focused, if things get intense or out of controll, remain calm and leave the scene.

• Wear clothing that covers your skin to protect from tear gas exposure.

• Document and write down actions of police brutality and injuries.

Allison Manion | The Communicator Protestor painfully shouts into the mega phone after the police calimed they were “not able to hear her” when she was trying to reason with the police.

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How coronavirus is affecting minorities COVID-19 has disproportionately affected minorities across the world Jillian Rockford

The Communicator As of now, Washington state has 19,585 coronavirus cases and 1,055 deaths. Out of those 19,585 confirmed cases 15,127 are minorities. Out of the 15,127 minorities, 5,885 are Hispanic, 1,029 are Black, 1,136 are Asian, and 201 are Native American. Minorities make up 61% of all COVID-19 confirmed cases in Washington state as stated by the Washington State Department of Health.

Ana Lucero Hurtado, the president of Latinos Unidos, states that her community dislikes the ongoing progression of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We don’t like all the isolation and it has brought up uncertainty of how to continue supporting our families,” Hurtado said.

With our current political climate, minority groups are fearing reaching out for assistance.

“It was not long ago that it was our Latino communities in the news. Raids and mass ICE apprehensions and families being torn apart. Babies and children separated from their parents and put into camps,” Hurtado said.

U.S Immgration and Customs Enforcement states that their mission is to protect America from cross border crime and illegal immgration that threaten national security and public safety.

Early in 2017, Donald Trump announced that 11 million immigrants in the United States, legal or not, would have the chance to be detained and deported by ICE. The Trump administration altered the executive branch policymakers perspective on immigrants.

Instead of immigrants being viewed as helpful to the American society, Trump’s administration plastered the view of immigrants being a threat and a danger to the American society into policymakers’ hands.

“It causes us great outrage and sadness to see what is going on in the country right now. It makes us wonder if the sacrifice of leaving our own countries in search of a better future for our families, sfcc.jillian.rockford1@gmail.com

Courtesy of freepik Everyone is being affected by the coronavirus in 2020, but racial minorities are disproportionately affected due to their communities’ protection not being properly prioritized by state and federal governments.

was worth it,” the president of the Latinos Unidos club, Ana Lucero Hurtado said.

Trump declared a National Emergency regarding the southern border of the United States. Trump attributed this National Emergency to an invasion of migrants who apparently had the potential to commit crimes in the United States.

Even though over half (60%) immigrants detained by U.S Immgration and Customs Enforcement did not have a criminal record.

In ICE detention centers, U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) often violated federal guidelines. CBP kept children for over 72 hours before taking them to the Health and Human services office of Refugee Resettlement.

Children were left in these ICE detention centers for up to 25 days unaccompanied. Between the dates of May 5, 2018 and June 20, 2018 over 800 immigrant children were separated from their families from the sectors of El Paso and Rio

Grande Valley. Between December of 2018 and July of 2019, six children have died while being detained under Trump’s administration according to the CBP. Other violations of CBP standards include not granting children the right to showers and hot meals.

The majority of people who were detained for more than 72 hours, were not allowed a shower.

Most adults who were detained in ICE detention centers were only given bologna sandwiches for meals as stated by the US Customs and Border Protection in Texas. This action resulted in many requiring medical assistance according to the CBP. “People of color face many hardships and discrimination. It seems that is the price we pay to be here,” said Hurtado.

Coronavirus took the life of a 57-year-old male from El Salvador while being detained at Otay Mesa detention center. According to the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement website, 2,781

people who are detained at an ICE detention center were tested for COVID-19. There are 754 positive cases as of now.

The indigenous people of America are being greatly affected

by COVID-19. The Indian Health Service reported that 4,000 positive COVID-19 cases across 12 regions.

The federal government spends $12,744 for one person on medicare, $9,404 for one person on veterans health, and only $2,834 for one person on healthcare for American Indians.

The federal government spends more money on health care for federal inmates than patients on health care for American Indians.

In 2016, the federal government spent $8,602 per federal inmate in contrast to $2,834 per patient on healthcare for American Indians.

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Courtesy of United States Center for Disease Control Statistics from the CDC show that the highest rates of COVID-19 are within communities of color in the United States. This is most likely due to high rates of poverty within these communities as well as lack of protection given to minimum wage and essential workers, who tend to be largely made up of people of color.

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Approximately 700,000 Native Americans live on 334 reservations across the United States.

The poverty rate on reservations is currently at 28.5% while the national average is 12.7%.

Four out of the 10 largest reservations have poverty rates of more than 50%. Those reservations being Fort Peck Indian Reservation (58.5%), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (52.8%), San Carlos Indian Reservation (52.6%), Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (54.4%) according to the US Census Bureau.

The Pine Ridge Comprehensive Health Facility is a hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

The Health Facility is run by the underfunded and understaffed Indian Health Service. According to the American Medical Association, the money that is funded to sfcc.jillian.rockford1@gmail.com

the Indian Health Service is spent on medical care and not public health programs.

The Indian Health Service has currently administered a total of 154,043 COVID-19 tests. Out of those 154,043 COVID-19 tests, 12,719 came back as positive for the virus according to the Indian Health Service’s website.

The number of positive cases among Native Americans are quickly increasing. Between 40% and 50% of homes on the Navajo reservation do not have running water which makes the virus spread among people even faster. Due to the lack of basic necessities caused by the absence of funding by the government, reservations are in great need of adequate funding.

“People of color have always walked on eggshells in this country. It appears not much has changed,” Hurtado said.

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Collaborating amidst coronavirus Musicians still produce hits despite their distances in quarantine.

Johnathan Curley

The Communicator While the coronavirus has stalled the daily routine of society across the world, it sure hasn’t slowed the creative output from the many music makers that call Spokane Falls Community College home.

Here are some Bigfoot musicians and their recent releases that have kept quarantine sounding so good.

Three years after its original release and a recent landmark of 1,000 Spotify listens, Zachary Hartman is back with a reworking of his signature single “Stars To You.” The sugary ukelele line and airy vocals of the original have been traded for a driving cascade of synths and a verse from SFCC rapper Keze (Zeke Tareski) for an endearing piece of bedroom pop.

Hartman cited his inspiration for the new version saying, “I was like, ‘Hey, maybe I should remake it since my ways of production have changed entirely.’ I was showing my friend Zeke, who goes to the Falls, and I was like, ‘Hey man, can you help me out? What should I put here?’ And he’s like, ‘I really, really want to put a verse down on that if that’s OK.’ It was one recording; first try. I was like, ‘This is amazing.’ He came up with that rap so quickly. I was like, how?

It takes me months to write a single word.”

The collaborative process between the two was simple, Hartman said.

“I just looped the track for him just for a couple of minutes, and then he shows me what he has already, and I’m like, ‘Dude, that’s perfect.’ I thought it would be such a cool opportunity to feature one of my friends on a track of mine.

“His verse just perfectly fits the already established lyrics. It brings something completely new to the song.”

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Courtesy photo Spokane Falls Community College rapper Keze (Zeke Tareski) poses in this bedroom pop picture.

of the Universe, Found by a Boy Who Flew Too Far from the Sun”), Mason Michael (Mason Lunneborg) explores the furthest corners of progressing, industrial ambience in his album “Living, Breathing, Moving.”

For Lunneborg, his newest release is the product of a revamped creative process.

“I kind of went in a different direction for it, because I just make a lot of music a lot of the time and I have this dump folder that I titled ‘the looming tapes’ kind of jokingly,” he said. “It was me just meticulously going through and finding, in that folder, those 30 hours of music, finding the best bits and pieces and trying to make them fit into a coherent idea or album. It’s just that constant battle in my brain of which songs go, ‘That’s corny, I should have never recorded that’ versus ‘I really need to release this.’

And in the case of “The Looming Tape...,” it quickly became one of the most engaging projects out of that ‘need-to-release’ pile.

“I think it’s really important to me because that is 29 minutes of a bunch of old songs of mine and I’m basically taking them to a level where I’m just saturizing them to high-hell,” Lunneborg said about his song “The Looming Tape in the Endless Tunnel…”, “Everything is warped and changed and dramatic and explosive. This is three years of music pushed into 29 minutes.

Thirty hours of music condensed into 29 minutes.”

Largely inspired by a single night toying around with different beats derived from Sonic the Hedgehog games, and even featuring a name cribbed from the heroic hedgehog’s home planet, “Mobius” marks the latest album from Keze.

“Two years ago, I was working

on my senior project. I was making a totally, completely different album and I wasn’t really enjoying the process that much because it was music that I wasn’t really wanting to make at the time. To pass the time, I just resorted to doing other things and I started to pick up video games again,” Tareski said.

“I picked up a couple of Sonic games on Steam on my computer and played through all of them, and I was really inspired by all of the music that was being produced within these games.”

“I started messing around with the idea of sampling different sounds from those video games, different songs, stuff like that.”

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“One night, me and a friend, we were just playing around with the idea and we ended up making five or six beats that one night. That’s probably around the time when I realized, ‘Oh, this is probably going to be an actual project.’”

The closing track “Distant” marks the emotional peak of the album, partly because of the collaborators that made it possible, said Tareski.

“I was basically just speedrunning my entire life in one song. It felt really personal to me,” he said.

“Making the beat, I was just like, ‘This is probably going to be a little more emotional song.’ I started writing the lyrics, started recording everything and I was like, ‘Yeah this is going to be a little emotional.’”

“I had this idea that at the end of the song, a lot of my friends just send me audio clips of them saying their favorite childhood memory and just kind of have a

B-role of it playing at the end of the song, and then that’s how the album ends.

“I think probably my favorite memory was getting all of these different memories from different people, seeing what their childhood consisted of. It was just a really heartwarming kind of thing.”

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Music artist Zachary Hartman posing for a photo.

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Hartman’s artwork for his song Stars To You features a beautiful dusk photo of a rooftop with hand-drawn stars and cursive lettering.

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Sadly signing off as editor-in-chief Though my time as EIC was shorter than most, I still enjoyed it immensely Ollie Fisher The Communicator I grew up a gifted kid.

My friend group consists of former gifted kids, too. Something about the shared struggle of having that weight on our shoulders drew us together, a solidarity of having been put into gifted classes that separated us from the broader group of our peers, forced to socialize with other “like-minded” individuals.

However, putting a bunch of nerdy, introverted kids into a singular group doesn’t tend to foster friendships, as most of them, including myself, were stuck in our own worlds and studies.

The nagging feeling of being somehow outside of normalcy continued to root its way deeper into how I interacted with both my classmates and family, persisting well into high school.

I had very few friends or acquaintances and didn’t have time for extracurriculars, since I was so focused on getting good grades. I had inevitably tied my self-worth to my excellence in school, as being the oldest child tended to force me to do everything I could to please my parents. This isolation was further exacerbated by the fact that I lived in Spokane and was commuting over an hour each day.

Spending most of my time at home had some perks, however, as it allowed me to explore LGBTQ+ terminology and identities along with my few friends, who were also going through similar revelations as I was at the time.

After a little over six years of research, I eventually discovered that one explanation for my feelings of otherness was due to gender dysphoria, the intense discomfort that results when your body is not congruous with your gender identity.

I came out to my mother, sister and brother as nonbinary the summer before junior year of high school and began to use the neu-

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Courtesy of Lindsey Treffry | The Communicator Left to right: Kyra Smith, Allison Manion, Katelynn Cooke, Ollie Fisher, Lindsey Treffry. One of the best times I had as part of The Communicator staff was being able to go to the College Media Association convention with my winter quarter staff.

tral, singular pronouns, “they, them, theirs, and themselves.”

That summer was spent trying different names and fashion choices with my family. I sought comfort in masculine honorifics and dress wear as a way to firmly establish myself as anything but feminine.

However, this revelation provided little comfort for my feelings of loneliness within school. When I officially came out to my school and urged my teachers and classmates to use my chosen name, I was further isolated by those who didn’t, or sometimes outright refused to, understand me.

This caused me to throw myself further into my schoolwork and my creative passions.

Writing has always been a constant in my life.

I participated and placed in my elementary school’s writing competition the three years that it ran, and I took as many English classes in high school as I could, not only because of my interest in the subject-

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Courtesy of Lindsey Treffry | The Communicator Another picture from the New York trip, again featuring winter quarter staff, at Ripley’s Believe It or Not underneath a fossil of a wooly mammoth.

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-but also because an English teacher was one of my only allies in a community that only seemed to foster disdain for me or anyone like me.

Anything to do with reading or writing helped provide some semblance of an outlet for my emotions.

Throughout my life, I tended to throw myself into fictional worlds to live vicariously through a character that wasn’t myself.

I desperately wanted to reinvent myself, but I was trapped within the suburbia of the Inland Northwest where almost everyone knew who I used to be and refused to accept and acknowledge who I wanted to be.

This lack of support culminated in my desire to both educate others as well as uplift and support marginalized voices within and outside of my community.

I wrote several essays within my junior and senior years of high school about activism within the LGBTQ+ community in attempts to be somewhat journalistic in my approach towards my teachers and professors within the guidelines of what we were supposed to be writing about.

My real, first attempt at journalistic writing was in third grade when I hand wrote and copied a newspaper focused around the events of my grade. Classmates who wanted to read it could pick up a copy and then return it once they were finished, since I didn’t have access to a copier and couldn’t give out the precious copies I had painstakingly recreated several times, including comics on the back pages.

Even with all of these experiences, I was still unsure about what I wanted to do as a career well into my senior year of high school.

I had desperately wanted to be an author, but I knew that without first establishing myself in the professional art and/or writing world somehow, I most likely wasn’t going to be able to find much success.

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Ollie Fisher | The Communicator Every three weeks, I help produce The Communicator using Adobe InDesign alongside my advisor and managing editor.

Because of the all-online quarter, I’m often doing this from my bed or my desk.

realized what I wanted to do with my life.

All of this is to say that, through taking this class, I have found my passion and choice of career.

I want to provide a voice to those who, like me, feel or felt othered by the rest of the world and either have no or a very limited platform to speak on.

I have been inspired by the likes of Glenn Greenwald, one of the reporters who worked with and first broke the story about Edward Snowden.

I want to make sure those in power are held accountable for their actions, as I have been taught and told that journalists are one of the watchdogs of governments all around the world.

I am eternally grateful to have had the experiences I did, including going to New York City for the first time in my life.

I owe my success in this class largely in part to my adviser and

professor, Lindsey Treffry, who has become one of my favorite teachers and has thoroughly inspired me to continue to pursue journalism as a career.

Though my time spent as staff of The Communicator was shorter than I intended, I will cherish the memories and connections I have made not only with my peers but with my advisor and professor.

I never thought I would be in the position I am today as editor-in-chief of a newspaper.

I haven’t fancied myself a leader of anything before, but I am so grateful that I was allowed to take this position and help both guide and work with my fellow reporters and managing editor.

I encourage anyone reading this to pursue your passions, because it is from your passions that you may find a fulfilling and successful career.

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International graduation celebration International students hold a graduation party at home through Zoom Parleen Kaur

The Communicator Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, graduation seemed almost impossible. The CCS Global Education Team decided to make the most out of the graduation day by organizing the virtual graduation party for international students.

The virtual graduation party was held on June 3 via Zoom. All the international students from Spokane Falls Community College and Spokane Community College were cordially invited on to this occasion.

Global Education program coordinator of SFCC Christiana Hennings was the host of the virtual party and SCC Global Education program coordinator Julie Hands was the co-host. The students appeared to be truly appreciated by the faculty and staff.

International student advisor Trina Allen concluded by wishing students all the best and shared some memories with each student.

Each student graduated ready to either transfer to a university or work full-time in their desired fields.

International student Angel was one a previous student of Spokane Falls Community College and encouraged graduating students worried about a difficult future, “Nothing is difficult if you’re willing to grab the opportunity.” Angel attended University of Washington and now works in a well-renowned company.

Maninder Singh, graduate student of Spokane Community College from India, adds that he is very grateful for graduating and looks forward to attending Eastern Washington University in Cheney.

Students who went back to their home country also joined the party despite the difference in time zones and wished all the best to all the former students.

Charlotte, an international student from Spokane Falls Community College who graduated this year, is ready to go to Washington D.C. to further her studies. sfcc.parleen.kaur@gmail.com

Courtesy of CCS Global Education International students gather via Zoom from all over the world to celebrate their graduation, despite not being able to come to campus and some of the students being back home in their native countries.

Christiana Hennings showed a video of good times and memories students had gathered, and attendees appeared very happy at the viewing.

The CCS team is working hard to provide the best facilities to the students, and they clearly succeeded at providing an excellent graduation party for 2020’s outgoing students.

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Poster for the international students’ graduation party via Zoom.

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High-schoolers get ahead in studies by taking opportunities on college campus

Gateway and Running Start students recount first college experiences Johnathan Curley

The Communicator Part of what makes the sense of community at Spokane Falls Community College so strong is the diverse range of students that populate the college’s campus.

Part of that range is thanks to the school’s Gateway and Running Start programs, a nontraditional pathway that gives local high-schoolers the chance to attend college classes either fulltime or part-time outside of their high school.

“You’re actually getting credit and you’re actually seeing a broad spectrum of people, you’re not just with a bunch of teenagers that have a keyhole mindset,” said first-year Gateway student Andrew Guymon, who switched from Lewis and Clark High School to SFCC in his junior year.

That same appreciation for the expanded perspective that college gives also resonates with Connor Hansen, a senior from West Valley High School who studies at SFCC as a part-time Running Start student.

“I like college way more than the high school,” Hansen said.

“Once I went into college, I could not stand being at the high school anymore, cause I still had one class there I had to take.”

Still, this doesn’t mean that there weren’t those intangibles of a high school experience that felt missing sometimes. “There were things that I missed at the high school, like teachers and whatnot,” Hansen said.

Beyond that, the support systems and staff that the college enlist create a structured and understandable pathway for the program, according to Hansen.

“The advisers are super helpful and they’ve got it set up nicely,” Hansen said. “They help you plan out your whole entire two years there. Honestly, I think they do a really nice job of it.” sfcc.johnathan.curley@gmail.com

Courtesy photo Building 30, Falls Gateway on the Spokane Falls Community College campus.

For newcomers like Lucy Sharapata, who signed up for Running Start halfway through her junior year at Lewis and Clark, those same support systems made the difference in what was a difficult transition between the two schools.

“I transferred after my first semester ... It was kind of like a half-and-half switch,” Sharapata said. “I ended up taking nine classes at once. When I was doing that, everyone at the Falls was so nice, and the teachers weren’t necessarily lenient, but they were understanding.”

However, as the coronavirus has interrupted every corner of the world, including education, the college’s new exclusively online curriculum has complicated the communication that’s so important to succeeding in college, with Sharapata saying, “Sometimes

it takes (the teachers) a while to communicate back.”

Still, it’s not enough to overshadow the impact and effect that the program means for students who are willing to put in the work to get ahead in their college studies.

“They were willing to take time to help me to try to understand what’s going on,” Sharapata said. “I like that the teachers aren’t trying to be your best friends, but they’re definitely trying to have you succeed.”

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Spokane black lives matter continued More photos from the Spokane BLM protest

Allison Manion | The Communicator Holding thier signs high and proud, Spokane protesters stood outside the Spokane County Courthouse for hours with their message.

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