Cascadia Weekly
Hands Against Hate

HANDS AGAINST HATE: “We want to believe that it can’t happen here. But it is happening here, and it has been for a long time,” Vernon Damani Johnson reported to Bellingham City Council earlier this month. The Western Washington University professor of political science sketched the escalation of local hate crimes and social animus that earlier this month included a racially motivated verbal assault on his colleague, Karen Dade, professor and former associate dean of Western’s Woodring College, at a local grocery store. … Read More