Joe Bomar interviews Paul Miller about the origins of Tacoma's own "America's Car Museum."

Carolyn Treleven holds a sign reading, "This doesn't stop abortions... it stops SAFE abortions."

Interviewer: What brings you here today?
"Outrage. Frustration. Exhaustion... this is for everybody that has a fundamental right to make decisions about their own medical care."

Jan Runbeck, RN and Mike Mowat hold sign, made by Planned Parenthood, together reading "Protect safe, legal abortion."

"My aunt was orphaned uh, at about six months of age when her mother, uh, had, and we don’t know if it was self-induced abortion or if she went to a, uh, alley abortionist, was found dead on the kitchen floor in a puddle of blood from the fact that she knew she had more children than the family could support. So, uh, that’s the personal story, but I’m also a public health nurse and demographically, when women have access to abortion, they have better long-term outcomes, society has better outcomes as far as literacy rate, poverty rates, health rates, and all that. So, from a public health long-term perspective, it’s better for society, and individually, um, my aunt would have had a much better life, had she had a mother." - Jan Runbeck, RN
"I’m just generally opposed to taking advantage of people or keeping people down, I mean there’s a huge movement all over the world and all through history of keeping uh people down, so we have low wages, people without rights, so even in our own constitution, which they use as a preface for-for overturning Roe vs. Wade, women had no rights at that time. So if they can take away those particular rights, they can take away all the rest of them." - Mike Mowat

Katt Merilo hold a sign reading "Pregnant, pro-choice, + pissed off." The back of her sign, unpictured, reads, "Here for my unborn's rights - to protect her body + plan her own future."

"I am here because of abortion rights affects all people, not just women, not just cis women, but women of color, trans women. And, abortion rights are very important for all of us to be able to plan our futures, and our families, and keep ourselves safe. I’m also nine months pregnant, I’m due on Monday... It's a girl."

Brian Schmidt, carrying a child on his back, holds a sign reading, "The majority draft opinion does not represent the majority of Americans!"

"It’s [laughs] it’s uh not fair that a small percentage of people can dictate the rights of a large, I mean, millions of people."

Aja Fulani pictured in black tactical gear.

"We’ve seen the reality of what happens to people who want to make their voices heard, call for justice whether it be peacefully or otherwise, we have seen that when that runs counter to what the state’s interests are, they are silenced one way or another. And our presence is hopefully at least a small deterrent if nothing else. We’re a symbol of security to the people that are here to make them feel like they can engage with their community and be heard without fear of retribution."

2023 report created by Momentum Professional Strategy Partners. This report was part of the Black Collective Economic Development Committee 2023 initiatives and was funded by a grant with the Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County. It explores and documents dominant reasons why local Black owned businesses fail and compiles recommendations to inform city and county entities.

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project Photographer; Abigail Kok poses with her son Ezra outside of thier home

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project

A contribution from Abigail Kok's Porch Portrait Project; Tyson, 38, electrictiona. Mariesa, 36, Public Relations for TPL. Decca, 4, wants to be an astronaut. Standing outside of their home in Central Tacoma

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; Jeff Southard of Swoon Records and his roommate, musician James Jenkins staying extra safe inside

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 email message from Megan Sells.

An email submission from Miriam Barnett.

Judy's email submission describing her life durring self isolation and being a member of a more vunerable demographic.

A mural outside Grit City Gridehouse skateshop located at 311 S 7th ST, Tacoma. The mural shows Rick, from the cartoon Rick and Morty, saying "Uh-oh Morty, it looks pretty rough out here in this dimension..."

A peaceful Black Lives Matter protest on WA-509 that stopped traffic.

A video of the peaceful Black Lives Matter protest marching down Pacific Avenue on 6/5/2020.

An email submission from Stephanie describing how their life has changed during the pandemic.

Dr. Maxine Mimms, founder of Evergreen College Tacoma, is the spotlight of this film produced by Dr. Gilda Sheppard. Dr. Mimms discusses the cultural importance of hip-hop music, her musical inspirations, and her father's encouragement of her pursuit of knowledge in spite of growing up in a segregated community.

Video clip of break-dance battle at "The Hip-Hop Nutcracker" performance at Tacoma Arts Live in 2017.

Videographer Paul Jackson interviews Erin Jones, candidate for Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction in the 2016 election. Jones discusses her adoption, growing up in the Netherlands, and her adulthood in the United States. Jones has been working to advocate for children marginalized in public education since she was nineteen years old.