Our new Cultivating Culture series will highlight Black innovators that are creating more spaces for community in western Washington.
The latest census showed the Black population in Washington only stands at 4.5%. For many, it’s hard to find Black culture.
Creech's latest play, Last Drive to Dodge, is the start of a series of plays highlighting Black people throughout American history. “I think that when I'm doing Hansberry work, I don't think about it," Curtis-Newton said."But when I have moments like this, where to hear Andrew talk about his feeling that Hansberry has been in his corner. It's very, very gratifying. I look around and I see the people that we've helped get their equity card, I see people that we've helped get more performances than one, and how our investment has lifted those boats.
Akinboro was 22 when he arrived in the Pacific Northwest. He thought the area should have brunches, parties, and areas for young black professionals to come together. He decided to learn to DJ to create that community. “Then someone from Microsoft came up they were like, ‘Hey, man you work with us but you're doing all this on the side? Why don't we like bring you to Microsoft and do something?'" Akinboro said."That's how I do my very first concert for Pitbull. Now I go from rooms of 300 to a room of 5,000 at Gasworks Park. I thought, 'oh I can really do this.' That changed my entire perspective on life.
“It’s not just a feeling of safety and acceptance," Jones said."It's all-pure black ownership. And so everyone that’s inside of our book are black business owners, black business operators. And obviously, we’re trying to recirculate the black dollar within our community as many times as possible.” But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Jones started with around 80 businesses but lost about 50% of her clients at the beginning of 2020.What's it like to travel while Black in Washington? Behind the scenes of a popular YouTube series
Right now, that spotlight is only on Seattle entrepreneurs, but Jones plans to expand across Washington state and eventually the West Coast.They didn’t know which PNW cities would feel safe after moving from St. Louis to Seattle for work. Our KING 5 crew joined them on their trip to Roslyn. The Loves wanted to focus on the black connection to the coal mining town, which dates back more than 130 years.
“I thought Seattle’s an incredible city with a lot of vibrancy. It was difficult to find the young black professional community and some of the things that I would do when I was in D.C., or I was visiting L.A. or New York City just weren’t quite as visible or didn’t happen as often here,” Kerr said.
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