SPOKANE, Wash. — After two years off due to the pandemic, it was time to get back on.
"It was good for everybody to finally get out after COVID hit," MLK Day attendee Deahanna Fuller said.
The annual MLK rally and march returned in full force in downtown Spokane on Monday.
Nearly 2,000 attendees listened to black Spokane youth share speeches and songs in the Spokane Convention Center. Before people went out to march, local leader Happy Watkins read one of Dr. King's most famous speeches, a speech most have heard.
""I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up," Watkins said.
But, the words hit attendee Michael Bethely a little more today.
"What Dr. King stood for is something I want to implement into my life and my children's lives," Bethely said. "It brought tears to my eyes to stand there with my son and hope he's absorbing the same words."
Today, Bethely's son remembers Dr. King for the words he said and steps he took.
"At school, I learned he gave his famous speech 'I Have a Dream,'" Bethely's son, MJay, said. "And like what's happening now, he organized a march too."
In Spokane, over 1,000 people covered city streets to march and celebrate his legacy.
The march brought people back to the Spokane Convention Center where they were able to continue to fellowship and connect at the resource fair.
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