On the third Saturday of every month from 6-10 p.m., Columbia City residents and visitors from afar emerge for an evening of commerce, cuisine and community gathering at 37th Avenue South between South Hudson and South Edmonds streets.

After protests escalated at the University of Washington – with “offensive graffiti across multiple buildings all over campus, some quite clearly both antisemitic and violent” – the school’s president is calling again for the voluntary dismantling of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the Seattle campus.

As we witness and experience what is happening today on the continents of North America and Africa, it’s absolutely important to study and act on the serious guidance for unity left to us by Brother Malcolm X. That’s the important way to celebrate what would have been his 99th birthday on May 19, 2024.