How did Eastern Washington's most inaccurate historical marker come to be?

Cheney has lent its young men and women to every American conflict since the founding of the town. Not all of them returned.

The Davenport’s “Matador Room” did not actually feature bullfighting, the Desert Hotel’s “Mirage Room” could only offer such hallucinations as alcohol provided, and the Coeur d’Alene Hotel’s “Donkey…

In October 1963, in downtown Spokane an exchange student at Gonzaga University from Liberia went into a barbershop to ask for a haircut. In a few minutes, Jangba Johnson experienced what it meant to…

On June 21st, 1964, one black and two white student activists were killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Only three weeks later, three lawyers from Spokane, Washington, two white and one black departed…

Black service members who served their nation in Spokane have faced racial discrimination, including one particularly heinous incident that occurred at Geiger Air Force Base in 1946.

The Wednesday Art Club of Spokane was much more than an art club. The African-American women-lead organization gave back to a city that did not always recognize them.

Around the turn of the last century numerous African Americans migrated from the deep South to Spokane in hopes of building a freer and more prosperous life. In which some of them achieved this with…

Following the 1915 release of DW Griffith’s racist film “Birth of a Nation,” the NAACP mobilized across the country, including Spokane, to protest the film.

Sometimes the law comes swift and unfairly as with the African American sex workers of downtown Spokane in the early 1900s.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Spokane's Riverside Avenue was more than a bustling hub of downtown commerce—it was also a shadowy stronghold for the Ku Klux Klan. Behind unassuming office doors, the…

In 1992, Spokane’s first pride march moved forward under restriction and threat, as participants took to the sidewalks to demand visibility in a city that had yet to make space for them.

For 86 years, the southwest corner of Main Avenue and Washington Street was home to one of Spokane's oldest pharmacies.

One popular Spokane urban legend is the tale of a Chinese cemetery buried under the Rosauer's Supermarket in Browne's Addition. This story has recently been doing the rounds on social media platforms…

Tiger Jack Fox "stalked his foes like a panther and he swung like lightning from half way to his knees." When he agreed to be managed by rookie promoter Al Morse, a partnership was formed that would…

"When the Well’s dry, we know the Worth of Water." - Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanac, 1746)

(This article contain descriptions of anti-Japanese violence. Contemporary images and references may contain slurs.) Prologue Before it was annexed by Spokane in 1924, Hillyard was a town in its own…

There were once two totem poles on this island in the river. This is the story of the one that is gone.

The little-known (and utterly fictional) tale of Spokane's "mayor for a day," Josiah Forsyth.