From pain to poetry
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Poets are students of humanity. It’s the poet’s job to witness the horrifying, gorgeous, nonsensical world and condense it, wrap it in metaphor and deliver …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Poets are students of humanity. It’s the poet’s job to witness the horrifying, gorgeous, nonsensical world and condense it, wrap it in metaphor and deliver …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
As a sociology major in college, I got to take classes that zoomed out on the complex ways we organize and function as societies, learning …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It was 71 years ago when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed by 48 different member countries of the United Nations, marking Dec. …
Special to the Reader
Dear President Tromp:
As non-governmental nonprofit organizations that have worked for decades in Idaho promoting human and civil rights while at the same time joining other …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Betsy Boyles attended the North Idaho Women’s March with a baby strapped to her chest, a fluorescent pink sign in her hand and a red …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
There are two reasons you shouldn’t read this article. If you are either of these things, I encourage you to simply flip the page, pressing …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Countless interpretations of what it means to be human graced the walls of the Sandpoint High School library Wednesday evening, displaying for the community how …
By Lynn Bridges
Reader Contributor
Monday, Jan. 15, has been designated Idaho Human Rights Day by the state of Idaho as a way to embrace diversity and to honor Dr. …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Brenda Hammond sat in the balcony of the then Sandpoint High School gym in May 1991. She was there to hear members of the …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Nearly 200 people lined Main Street in Bonners Ferry Saturday afternoon, evenly split to the left and right.
On one side gathered North Idaho residents …
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