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Kurtis Blow and the Hip Hop Nutcracker head to the Paramount Theatre
Hip Hop Legend and Music Pioneer Kurtis Blow’s First National Tour Since His Heart Transplant
4Culture offering COVID recovery grants for cultural organizations in Seattle-King County.
Trae Holiday caught up with Nina Yarbrough who is the Arts Program Director at 4Culture to get more information about the 4Culture Covid Recovery Grants for cultural organizations in Seattle/King County in conjunction with the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture.
Building Black wealth with Phoenix Rockwell-Davidson and Black Dot
Wednesday evenings between 6:00pm - 8:00pm, BLACK DOT and your "Home Girl in Real Estate" Phoenix Rockwell-Davidson will host an in person and virtual event called Seattle Black W.E.A.L.T.H. Builders Club that will serve as a place for our community members to get together with like minded people and learn how to support each other on their personal journeys to building generational wealth.
#DomesticViolenceAwareness: YWCA’s Survivors First Program
Survivors FIRST (Facilitating Interventions and Resources for Survivors of Trauma) is a partnership between the YWCA of Seattle King County and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (KCPAO) that identifies justice-involved survivors of gender-based violence and connects them to culturally specific services at the YWCA Seattle King County.
Therapist Ashley McGirt talks Black Healing in a Pandemic
Converge sat down with Ashley Mcgirt M.S.W., a local Black therapist who specializes in African American suicide and who founded the Washington Therapy Fund to help provide better mental health care to the Black community. IN their one-hour interview, McGirt and Traeanna Holiday discuss the gap between Black mental health data and the reality, BIPOC-focused mental health resources and more.
