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On March 6 from 12 to 1 p.m. members of the Spokane community will hold hands and link arms while surrounding the Spokane NAACP office, 25. W. Main Ave., Suite 239,  in response to a racist and threatening package received by its President Rachel Dolezal earlier this week.

“Arms of Compassion is a way of embracing the NAACP and our African American family, friends, and neighbors in a great big community hug, the same way we’d comfort and protect anyone we care about who is hurting and frightened,” The Rev. Todd Eklof, an organizer of the event and pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane said in a press release.

Friday’s event coincides with the 50-year anniversary of the 5-day Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1965.

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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