(")
~
4)
01)
"'
~
- <u'
I\)
E::.
-~
Ct.
<u
~ -~ - ;.....
~
~ ,__,
"°N
-~
- ::I
d
~
-~
~
t
~
:: ~
t,__, ~
~
-=: ~ ...
~ ~
e
,__,... ~ ~
~
~
~
... ~ ~
~
.~-::: ~
."""'-
::: :: ~ ~
~
~
~
~
~
Spokane plans service, rally, march, resource fair Spokane's Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Service, Rally, March and Resource Fair are planned for Sunday and Monday, Jan. 20 and 21. Joe Wittwer, who has been lead pastor at Life Center Foursquare Church in Spokane since 1978, will speak at the Commemoration Service at 4 p.m., Sunday, at Holy Temple Church of God in Christ, 806 W. Indiana, said the Rev. James Watkins of the Spokane Ministers' Fellowship, which plans that event. The offering from the service will go to the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center. The Rally and March begin at 10 a.m., and the Resource Fair runs from noon to 2 p.m., on Monday, at the Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. For information, call 868-0856 or visit mlkspokane.org.
Events commemorate MLK in Moscow The University of Idaho and the Office of Multicultural Affairs celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. 's life and legacy through several events commemorating the values of courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility and service that defined his character and empowered his leadersbip,along with the values of universal, unconditional love, forgiveness and nonviolence that empowered his revolutionary spirit. For information, call 208-8857716 or email oma@uidaho.edu.
North Idaho 5th graders attend MLK program The 34th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 5th Grade Children's Program sponsored by the Coeur d'Alene and Post Falls school districts, the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations
and Nortb Idaho College will be held at '9:30 a.m. and at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 15 , at the North ldabo College Scbu ler Performing Arts Center. Nationally recognized educator and actor Stu Cabe will entertain the students with his performance of the story, "Big Elephant and Little Elephant," to teach the principles of kindness, inclusion and care for others. The children wi II present essays, dance and music. For information, call 208-7653932.
Ibram Kendi speaks at WSU in Pullman New York Times bestselling author and history professor Ibram X. Kenru is the keynote speaker for the 32nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Program at 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 17, at the CUB Senior Ballroom at Washington State University in Pullman. Ibram, 36, founding director of theAntiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, seeks to reveal the root of racism, which be says is not bate or ignoranee, but policies people are not aware are discriminatory. Born in Queens, New York, he attended Florida A & M and then Temple University in Philadelphia, earning a doctoral degree in African-American studies. Before entering research and academia, be embarked on his journey to address racism. He is the author of Stamped
from the Beginning: The Definitive History ofRacist ideas in America and will publish his third book in 2019. He has also been the post doctorate fellow at the National Academy of Education, the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Ibram bas taught at Brown University, the University of Chicago, Princeton, Duke, UCLA, SUNY New York, the University of
J