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Meet Our 2024 History Maker: Dr. Dorothy Laigo Cordova

Honoring Dr. Dorothy Cordova: A pioneer in preserving Filipino American history and cultural pride.

Dismantling Racism: October 27, 2020 Presentation

Watch a presentation on voting rights, voter suppression, and disenfranchisement that results from institutional racism and racist...

Ruby Chow: Profile

Growing up the eldest of ten children with a single mother, Ruby Chow learned the power of ordinary people helping each other out....

Dismantling Racism: Black Lives Matter

Change is now. The video documenting George Floyd’s murder has shaken the world. America’s silence has been broken and voices have been...

Dismantling Racism : May 27, 2020 | Presentation

Please join us for an online talk with David J. Jepsen, author of “Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History” on the primary...

History of the Mount Baker Neighborhood

Prepared by Katie Pratt and Spencer Howard of Northwest Vernacular, Inc. on behalf of the Friends of Mount Baker Town Center with funding...

Lessons in Civic Activism: Greenwood Gardens

In the 1970s, people had all kinds of ideas about what should go in at 38th and Othello—a police station, a bible college, a Native...

How To Build A Bridge

From the west slope of Beacon Hill, the Lucile Street Bridge runs under Interstate 5 and dives in a massive U over the railroad tracks at...

Schoolyard Standoffs: The Tale of Whitworth Elementary

This project was completed in 2011 and was founded by a special project grant from King County 4Culture. One day in the fall of 1988...

Everybody In: Community Activism in the Rainier Valley

We have completed a project researching and documenting the history of community activism in the Rainier Valley. We were interested in...

"Everybody In" Packs It In

This project was completed in 2011 and was founded by a special project grant from King County 4Culture. John Hoole and I began our...

A Concrete Problem: SESCO and the Principle of Escalation

Community organizing starts with problems—a rat infested apartment, the steady drip drip from the ceiling of an elementary school after a...