‘You can kill the dreamer, but you cannot kill the dream’: Spokane community comes together to honor MLK and his legacy

Jan. 15—Last week, the Spokane NAACP got "a very alarming email," chapter president Lisa Gardner told a crowded ballroom at the Spokane Convention Center on Monday. A Spokane Valley school was planning to end hosting their Martin Luther King Jr. Day assembly. "As you can imagine, of course, we were distraught," Gardner said. "We were upset. We were flabbergasted, to say the least." Martin …