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.
