A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project; Ages 47 and 15.

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project; roommates, good friends, and quarantine buddies

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project; Danica optimizing her quarantine time by basking in some early spring light in front of her home

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project; Makeup artist Noelle Messinger standing outside of her apartment building.

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project

An image of a house sign that reads "Brighter Days Ahead"

The Carnegie section of the Tacoma Main Branch Library boarded up on 6/5/2020.

Kellen Drury visually describes what he misses and appreciats during the Covid times in this short film.

The Tacoma Art Museum will host the Kinsey African American Art & History Collection from July 31 - November 28, 2021. Director David F Setford visited the Black Collective to a presentation.

Slideshow of photos taken during Carol Rashawnna Williams' visit to CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), in Seattle 2020. CHAZ (aka CHOP - Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) was established in June of 2020 in protest against the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, occupying several blocks in the city center for over three weeks.

Beth, representative at Confidence Analytics, discusses the company's work to test cannabis products in the state of Washington.

Panelists discuss the "ongoing vape crisis" in the cannabis industry, including federal policy made around health concerns.

MiShawn Cabrera, 2019 Hilltop Artists Ambassador, discusses his ongoing projects in the glass-blowing studio and his entry into glass-blowing as an art form.

Dr. Hardiman discusses the history of opening Evergreen College, Tacoma campus, founded by Dr. Maxine Mimms.

Video footage of "JB^2: A Jasmine Brown Collection," in the 950 Gallery, hosted by Spaceworks Tacoma.

Jasmine Iona Brown discusses her collaborative showing "JB^2: A Jasmine Brown Collaboration." She covers the beginning of her career as an artist, and a art pieces memorializing her former foster children who were victims of gun violence and other victims of violence.

Rock Hushka discusses his responsibilities as curator at TAM, as well as the museum's mission to preserve and display the art and art history of the Pacific Northwest.

Lead Pastor Kevin Gerald giving a sermon at the Champion Center in Tacoma.

Ryan Whitley discusses the functions of The Union, a Black-first technology focused community center. He covers his research of his ancestry and the event "Finding Our Roots: Genealogy Research Workshop" that he hosted.

Community activist and Black Collective co-chair Lyle Quasim speaks at the "We Are Not Going Back" 54th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington. He discusses the history of the Black Collective, founded in 1969, and voices support for similar organizations in King County.

Angela Rye, Principal and CEO of IMPACT Strategies, speaks at "We Are Not Going Back" 54th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington.

Oral history interview of Juanita Olivas, an unhoused neighbor living in Tacoma, conducted by dindria barrow on April 9, 2022. Juanita shares how she became homeless, how her faith has carried her through life, and why she does volunteer work. Juanita is 60 years young and plans on completing high school so that she can get a job as a medical insurance billing and coder. Juanita dreams of being “somebody that can help out with the community, always. I would love to have a really big apartment building that I could just take in all the homeless…just pour my heart out to ‘em, because people out there, you never know their story until you actually talk to them and I’ve met a lot of people that is so talented out there and so educated, but their story just breaks my heart.”

Oral history interview with former Puyallup Tribal Council Member, Ramona Bennett. Interviewed by dindria barrow on April 2, 2022, in the Digital Media Lab of the Tacoma Public Library. Ramona discusses her views on Indian and Indigenous rights, the people she encountered on her advocacy journey and how she continues living during difficult times. Ramona reminds us that “things shift slowly”, to “love whoever is left” after someone passes away, to put “just one foot after the other” and that her people live on because of “all the ways we pray are so hard”.

Cynthia Tacye Tucker at age 21 years old, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, August 1971.

Cynthia Tucker's mother (6/17/31-2/23/2010).

Cynthia Tucker's grandmother, born April 25, 1917. A July 19, 1936 article from the West Chester, PA Daily Local News newspaper stated, "Mrs. Tacie Steele was last night elected permanent chairman of the Citizens' Civic and Welfare Club, an auxiliary unit to the recently organized Citizen's Political Club of Chester County. Mrs. Steele is s committee woman." Cynthia was so proud to find this clipping amongst family artifacts given to her by her mother. "I always wondered why I was so eager and interested in community work. Now I know." Tacie Steel's mother was Mary Etta Draper Cooper Washington Dorin (9/5/1874-11/22/1971) and lived in Philadelphia, PA.