Peaceful Black Lives Matter protest on WA-509
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- 2020
Part of Dear Tacoma Project Collection
A peaceful Black Lives Matter protest on WA-509 that stopped traffic.
Peaceful Black Lives Matter protest on WA-509
Part of Dear Tacoma Project Collection
A peaceful Black Lives Matter protest on WA-509 that stopped traffic.
Penton, Rev. Bob video interview
Oral history interview conducted by dindria barrow at the Tacoma Public Library Main Branch's Digital Media Lab on June 1, 2022. Reverend Robert T. Penton was born on December 11, 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He was born in a segregated town with a large Ku Klux Klan chapter in a shotgun (one-room) house. Bob felt he had no voice in this town and grew disenchanted with his life there. He believed he could make a difference by joining the VISTA program. He was sent to South Central Los Angeles in 1967 to be a community organizer, two years after the riots in Watts. Bob joined the Black Panther Party and became a Minister of Information. He found his voice in Los Angeles. His second year in the VISTA program brought him to Tacoma, WA and the largest public housing complex west of the Mississippi river, Salishan. Bob worked in the anti-poverty program and helped to organize a community center, a family food coop, and youth programs. In the 80’s, Reverend Bob ran campaigns against fear and gang violence by fasting. One of his guiding quotes is: “Poverty of purpose is worse than poverty of purse.” When addressing trauma and divisive politics “it takes something bigger than all of us to break down those walls to bring that common purpose.” Overall, he reminds us that “people need to know how much you care, not how much you know.” Listen to Rev. Bob’s personal purpose and his insights into how to navigate life.
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Dear Tacoma Project Collection
Blake Kremer's video of downtown Tacoma during the pandemic.
Video recording of Ramona Bennett, Former Chair of the Puyallup Tribal Council, American Indian Fishing Rights Activist, from the 2018 WILLO Storytelling Festival.
Recording of Zoom Conference Celebrating Dr. Maxine Mimms
Part of Paul Jackson Digital Videos
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.
Reverend Koyama and Bob Nakayama, Buddhist Temple
Part of Reverend David Alger Interviews
Video recording of Rosa Franklin, former Washington State Senator, African American leader, from the 2014 WILLO Storytelling Festival.
Salishan: Past, Present, & Future
Part of Community Event Collection
"Salishan" Past, Present, & Future" is a film created in 2003 by teacher Bryan Johnson and 5th grade students at Lister Elementary School.
Part of Community Event Collection
Vicky M. Semones is an award-winning poet and photographer with a lifelong interest in spiritual and philosophical subjects. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies. She was an acolyte at the Mary Magdalene Chapel in Oakland, California, and has brought her teaching skills and love of gnostic spirituality to the Center for Spiritual Living - Tacoma, having developed a 'Wisdom Circle' series on "Re-discovering Mary Magdalene." Vicky also posts her poetry at www.authorsden.com/semones
Video recording of Seong Shin, Founder of WILLO, Principal at McGranahan Architects, from the 2014 WILLO Storytelling Festival.
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Video recording of Sonja Silver, Entrepreneur, Sonja Silver Designs, Sonja—Clothes to Live In, from the 2016 WILLO Storytelling Festival.
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Video recording of Sulja Warnick, Founding Board Member/Executive Committee Chair of Korean Women’s Association, from the 2016 WILLO Storytelling Festival.
Tacoma I.W.W. Centennial Rally, 2005 (VHS)
Part of Arthur J. Miller Papers
Tacoma Leonard Peltier March, 1994 (VHS)
Part of Arthur J. Miller Papers
Tacoma Leonard Peltier March, 1999 (VHS)
Part of Arthur J. Miller Papers
Video recording of Tad Monroe, Consultant, Organizer, Storyteller, from the 2017 WILLO Storytelling Festival.
Video recording of Tamiko Nimura, Japanese American Historian and Freelance Writer, from the 2018 WILLO Storytelling Festival.
The Hip Hop Nutcracker with MC Kurtis Blow, 2017
Part of Paul Jackson Digital Videos
Video clip of break-dance battle at "The Hip-Hop Nutcracker" performance at Tacoma Arts Live in 2017.