Western’s 2.7% Black Population is Not a Coincidence
It’s due to years of white supremacy and racism in Bellingham.
7 min readJun 16, 2020
This post was inspired by Lizzie Friesen’s “Why Bellingham is Only 1.56% Black.”
When I moved to Bellingham in the fall of 2019 to attend Western Washington University, I noticed immediately that both the town and the student body were shockingly…
