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”.

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

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.

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

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.

"Salishan" Past, Present, & Future" is a film created in 2003 by teacher Bryan Johnson and 5th grade students at Lister Elementary School.

A video by Kyle Peirson shot around Tacoma.

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

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.

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.

This is a promotional literacy video for the Hilltop Library Planning Committee. This video was first put into Northwest ORCA database in the Northwest Room (NWR) repository on June 19, 2021, at 5:37 PM. It has been transferred to the Community Archives Center repository where a collection for the Hilltop Library Planning Committee has been created.