Tere Graham attended the African American Graduation Ceremony more than a decade ago after graduating from Eastern Washington University.
Although she previously lived in Spokane and attended Lewis and Clark High School, it was during this ceremony that she first felt connected to the Spokane community.
“I just saw a sea of folks who look like my aunts and uncles, and I said, ‘This is pretty cool.’ I never experienced that before,” said Graham, program manager for the Unity Multicultural Education Center at Gonzaga University and volunteer for the African American Graduation…