King County Equity Now

03/08/2026

🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨
NO MILLIONAIRE’S TAX WITHOUT REPAIR

Washington lawmakers are advancing ESSB 6346 — but the revenue goes into the general fund with no guaranteed investment in the communities most harmed.

For generations, Black descendants of American chattel slavery and Freedmen have been told to trust the system.

History shows otherwise.

If fairness is the goal, repair must be written into law.
✔️ Anti-displacement
✔️ Black homeownership retention and expansion
✔️ Restoration of historically Black communities
✔️ Capital access for Black-owned businesses
✔️ Investments in “By and For” Institutional infrastructure supporting the well-being of Black descendants of American chattel slavery

Without these commitments, ESSB 6346 just expands state revenue while leaving the most impacted communities to compete for resources.

⚖️ Equity must be enforceable.
📜 Repair must be written into law.
📢 TAKE ACTION
📞 Contact the Washington State House Legislature
❌ Demand a NO vote on ESSB 6346 unless repair is included

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No Millionaire’s Tax without repair.

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02/15/2026

Tomorrow 2/16 in Olympia!!

Collectively mobilizing for impact in the advancement of African Americans across WA state. The fight for justice and equal access for all people requires radical participation.

11/24/2025

Today we honor “Founders Week” — one of the most powerful acts of Black self-determination: the occupation of the Colman School to establish a world-class African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center.

On Nov. 23, 1985, the former Colman school building was claimed for reparations, Black cultural restoration, youth safety, and community survival.

It has been noted as “the longest act of civil disobedience in U.S. history.”

To counter this community-led movement, the downtown forces behind gentrification and their Black political operatives hijacked, diverted and minimized the project — dividing the community, replacing the founders comprehensive institutional vision with what has been called the “Urban League Pillage & NAAM Scam”.

40 years later, the consequences are undeniable:
• Jim Crow Apartheid economic conditions
• Devastating W**d & Seed displacement
• Intracommunity gun violence epidemic
• Erasure of legacy and belonging

The vision was betrayed — but the movement did not die.

The initiative has kept the flame alive, continuing the fight for cultural restoration, land, and self-determination.

As we intensify our fight for reparations we must understand:
• how our movements have been undermined
• how progress is disrupted
• and how familiar tactics resurface whenever community assets and resources are at stake

We cannot afford to fall victim to these tactics again.

In the months ahead, we will be amplifying critical lessons from the struggle for the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center — exposing the forces, dynamics, characters, decisions, and narratives that shaped the current conditions of Black Seattle.

This history must be understood in the context of today’s fight for reparations, the fight to save our youth, and the fight to secure a future for Black community life in Seattle.

To understand the devastation is to understand the path to restoration.

It’s time to reclaim what was taken, justice delayed is justice denied!

and Demand Justice for the AAHM&CC.

11/02/2025

Tap in and join us for an inspiring night of humor, truth & legacy with — featuring live excerpts from her acclaimed show, real talk, audience Q&A + book signing for her new release What Would The Ancestors Say??

📅 Mon, Nov 10 | 5:30pm
📍 Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute

🎁 Free book for the first 50 youth/students!

📖 About the Book:
Adapted from her one-woman show, What Would the Ancestors Say?? fuses humor and history to ask two powerful questions:
💭 What would our ancestors say about the world we’re in now?
💭 What kind of ancestors will we be for the future?

🎟️ [Link in bio]

10/17/2025

We outside for freedom and power this weekend! Pop Out!

Legendary Hip Hop Group Dead Prez Let’s Get Free 25th Anniversary Show @ Nectar Friday Oct. 17th
@ Nectar Lounge

Where Do We Go From Here? Pt. 2
Community Issues Updates & Strategy Sessions
10/18, 12-4pm
@ Washington Hall

Brunch & Ballots
Voter Education Forum
Sun 10/19, 12-4pm
@ Washington Hall

09/22/2025

The future of Seattle’s Black community — and all communities facing displacement — is on the line.

CB 121011 (“Roots to Roofs”) pretends to deliver equity, but in reality it’s another anti-Black, developer-driven policy that puts profits over people.

We can’t afford another policy that demolishes housing, accelerates displacement, and delivers zero real affordability.

Don’t be fooled. This bill:
❌ Requires NO affordable housing
❌ Lets developers profit without protecting families
❌ Accelerates displacement of Black, Brown, and working-class communities

We demand REAL equity:
✅ 50% affordable housing (at deeply affordable levels)
✅ Family-sized units
✅ Community ownership + nonprofit support
✅ Tree canopy and green space protection

📩 Join us in demanding City Council Vote NO on CB 121011.

Our communities deserve real solutions — not fake equity.

👉 Link in bio to email Council now.

09/17/2025

🚨 The future of Seattle’s Central District is on the line.

City Council will soon vote on the One Seattle Comp Plan Update and Roots to Roofs legislation. These decisions will either protect our historic Black neighborhood or accelerate further displacement.

👉 We need you to act NOW. Email City Council and demand they vote YES on:
✅ Amendment 111 — Restore Central District boundaries
✅ Amendment 114 — Rename Judkins UC to Central District South
✅ Resolution — Require anti-displacement strategies in redlined neighborhoods

Without these, more than 100 acres of the Central District could be carved into Capitol Hill, Madison-Miller, and Judkins Park — erasing our history, institutions, and cultural anchors. We cannot let it happen again.

📩 Take Action Today: Click the link in bio and tell Council:
“Vote YES on 111, 114, and the Resolution. Protect the Central District. Stop the erasure.”

09/10/2025

I’ll be tapping in to respondto the recent controversy in the Mayor’s race and giving analysis on the upcoming elections. In the meantime here’s some perspective on how to move.

09/02/2025

08/06/2025

If you haven’t heard! You have permission to pull up! >>>
🎶✨ OFFICIAL LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT ✨🎶
The 2025 Skyway Nia Festival is making history — and this year, the stage is 🔥

🌟 For the first time ever, a nationally recognized artist will headline at Skyway Park...

🎤 – performing LIVE!
The platinum-selling R&B star behind “Permission” is coming to our community to bless the stage and make history!

But that’s just the beginning 👇🏾

💫 & Friends – a special collaborative set featuring:
• Lia Plussum
• .anatomy
• Medearis “MD” Dixson

⚡️ Plus, a soul-stirring performance by rising star:
🎙️ Oya Storms

📍 Skyway Park
📅 Saturday, August 9th, 2025
🎟️ FREE for the community

This is more than a concert — it’s a celebration of culture, talent, and community power. You won’t want to miss this day of music, food, family, and joy. Let’s show the world what Skyway is made of. 🌍✊🏾

06/05/2025

Today in Seattle Black History: June 4, 1998

On this day, Seattle Police SWAT teams and FBI agents raided the African American Heritage Museum & Cultural Center (AAHM&CC) at the historic Colman School—removing the founding organizer Omari Tahir and fellow board members at gunpoint. This state-sanctioned assault on a grassroots Black institution was widely seen as a political coup to neutralize G”community-led leadership and vision.

The raid paved the way to complete the downtown-orchestrated takeover started by former mayor Norm Rice fronted by the Urban League and fellow Boule (Sigma Pi Phi) members like Bob Flowers and former COINTELPRO-era FBI agent Carver Gayton—agents of white supremacy in Blackface, advancing the broader economic ethnic cleansing of Black community from Seattle’s Central District.

Today, the Colman School is no longer under community control. It houses what many call the “Urban League Pillage” apartments and “NAAM Scam” —a sanitized, state-approved version of a vision born out of grassroots Black liberation struggle.

This isn’t just history—it’s a warning. It shows how Black movements are co-opted, institutions are diluted, and liberation is rebranded to serve the status quo.

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Colman School occupation—the longest act of civil disobedience in U.S. history—justice, reparations & healing are long overdue.

Our children are dying in the streets, casualties of a system that robs them of cultural identity, historical grounding, and hope.

We deserve more than watered-down narratives and state-sanctioned placeholders.

It’s time to finish what was started.
It’s time to reclaim the vision.



Slide 1 & 2: Excerpts WTO Reparations 2000 March Flyer for Nov 1999

Slide 3 & 4: Photos raid aftermath June 4, 1998

Slide 5-6: Stranger Magazine June 11,1998

Slide 7: Flyer for Community Meeting June 24, 1998

Slide 8: Photo of signage at Colman School reoccupation Nov. 2020

Slide 9: Photo of. Colman School Nov. 1999

05/20/2025

We are excited to announce Grammy Award winner will be performing live at Juneteenth @ Jimi Hendrix Park brought to you by and . Sponsors, vendors and volunteers tap in! Click the link and connect.