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Forum this week to focus on responding to white supremacy

By: Tracy Simmons

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November 19, 2019

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On Thursday First Presbyterian Church will host a forum on how people of faith should respond to an uptick in white supremacy.

Speakers will include Rev. Walter Kendrick of Morning Star Baptist Church, Kristine Hoover of the Gonzaga Institute for Hate Studies and former state senator John Smith.

“Whether we’re seeing neo-nazi flyers posted at a local church (like Rev. Kendricks’s church Morningstar Baptist), or grappling with our region’s prevalence of white supremacist groups, or mourning over the latest mass shooting in our country, how should we respond as people of faith?,” the church said in a press release.

Discussion points will include how communities can stand with those affected as well as how white supremacy can be prevented.

The forum is part of the Biblical Justice Forums at First Presbyterian Church. It will be at 7 p.m. at the church, 318 S. Cedar St.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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