Video recording of Theresa Pan Hosley, President of Chinese Reconciliation Foundation, from the 2014 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Melissa Jorgensen and Friends, Bottom up Hilltop Community Activists, from the 2014 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Maxine Mimms, Founder of the Maxine Mimms Academy, from the 2014 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Seong Shin, Founder of WILLO, Principal at McGranahan Architects, from the 2014 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Marilyn Strickland, City of Tacoma Mayor, from the 2014 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Dyann Lyon, Artist, Certified Healthy Edge Coach, from the 2015 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Lua Pritchard, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Cultural Center, from the 2015 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of T’Wina Franklin, Urban Community Co-founder of Ladies First, Director at University Place School District, from the 2016 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Marilyn Strickland, Mayor of Tacoma, from the 2017 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Ramona Bennett, Former Chair of the Puyallup Tribal Council, American Indian Fishing Rights Activist, from the 2018 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

Video recording of Beverly Grant, Pierce County Attorney at Law, Retired Pierce county Superior Court Judge Fighting for Employees’ Rights, from the 2018 WILLO Storytelling Festival.

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”.

This video was created to provide an introduction to the Dear Tacoma project and to give contributors instructions for submitted content to the collection.

A video by Kyle Peirson shot around Tacoma.

Blake Kremer's video of downtown Tacoma during the pandemic.

An online celebration at 11 a.m. is being held by Black community leaders where people can hear speeches from Mayor Victoria Woodards, Rep. Melanie Morgan and learn more about first-time Black candidates running for office in Tacoma.

Dr. Maxine Mimms speaks at an informal Q & A about her influence in the founding of Evergreen College in Tacoma and her goals to serve the community.

Claire, representative of Pax Vapor, discusses the function of the convention and Pax products.

Gabriel Brown discusses the art walk of Tacoma and the Jasmine Brown exhibit.

Jasmine "Jas" Brown discusses his career path into his work as an abstract artist, and local artists in Seattle that inspire his work.

Bobby Seal speaks at the unveiling of a mural commemorating the Black Panther Party at Franklin High School.

Former Washington State Governors Daniel J. Evans, Gary Locke, and Christine Gregoire meet at the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle and are announced as the League's honorary co-chairs for the I-1000 Equality Campaign. The attendees discuss support for the removal of the ban on affirmative action, known as I-200, and it's replacement with initiative I-1000, which would establish non-quota affirmative action. Former State Representative Jessie Wineberry introduces the former governors as well as community leaders who have pushed for the passing of I-1000.

Kunta Kinte Island descendent Lamin Jatta discusses the "Kunta Kinte Island" film screening at the Tacoma Life Center.