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NAACP Leader to Speak at Spokane LDS Church MLK Day Celebration

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The Spokane North Stake Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will host a free Martin Luther King Jr. Day event featuring NAACP Spokane Branch Vice President Jaime Stacy and vocalist Alethea Dumas on Sunday (Jan. 19) from 6 to 7 p.m.

MLK Day Event Details

Stacy will speak at the MLK Day event.

The MLK Day event, themed “Let us live together in a beloved community,” will include spirituals performed by Dumas and remarks from Stacy, who serves as an educator in Spokane Public Schools and founded Strong Women Achieving Greatness (SWAG).

Stacy, who made history as the first female African American candidate for the Mead School Board, is also the founder of Hope Rising in Mead. Her community leadership has earned multiple honors, including the Trendsetter Award for Emerging Leaders in the Inland Northwest and the 2024 Community Innovator of the Year from Partners in Campus Community Engagement.

The event will be held at 401 W. Regina Ave. in North Spokane.

Tracy Simmons
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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