Black American

WA Black-Owned Business Excellence

Tukwila,

Community Focus: Black American
Geographic Region: Seattle Area

Black-Owned Business Excellence is a collaboration of different organizations and individuals coming together to support, educate, inspire and elevate businesses that are owned by underserved business owners in Washington State.

Wa Na Wari

Seattle,

Community Focus: Black American
Geographic Region: Seattle Area

Sited in a fifth-generation, Black-owned home, Wa Na Wari is an immersive community art project that reclaims Black cultural space and makes a statement about the importance of Black land ownership in gentrified communities. Our mission is to create space for Black ownership, possibility, and belonging through art, historic preservation, and connection. Referred to as a “container for Black joy,” Wa Na Wari incubates and amplifies Black art and belonging while providing a safe space for organizing and movement building. By renting a house from a vulnerable Black homeowner, and giving that space back to the Black community, Wa Na Wari is an active model for how Black art and culture can combat gentrification and displacement.

Wakulima

Kent,

Community Focus: BIPOC, Black American, Immigrant/Refugee
Geographic Region: North Puget Sound

Wakulima USA is a farming and food business cooperative that advances small business development and food sovereignty for low income immigrants and people of color in the Puget Sound region. Wakulima means “Farmers” in Kiswahili the most widely spoken language in Africa

Washington for Black Lives

Statewide,

Community Focus: Black American

We are a unified Black-led coalition that includes community-based organizations, nonprofits, and faith communities across Washington State. We’re organizing together to demand economic, political, and social justice.

Washington Hall

Seattle,

Community Focus: BIPOC, Black American
Geographic Region: Seattle Area

Washington Hall has been a welcoming place where people gather, create, entertain, and celebrate since it was built in 1908. The Hall has been a cultural home to many communities and art forms, and for a long time embodied the soul of Seattle’s Central Area. Washington Hall Anchor Organizations Washington Hall is a project of Historic Seattle with major support from 4Culture. The Hall has consistently functioned as a performance space since its opening in 1908, but had fallen into disrepair in the last few decades and was in danger of demolition before Historic Seattle negotiated a purchase. The long term vision for the Hall is full rehabilitation and a permanent home for Central Area organizations with a focus on arts, media and social justice.

Washington MultiCultural Services Link (WMSL)

Seattle,

Community Focus: BIPOC, Black American, Disabilities
Geographic Region: Seattle Area

Washington Multicultural Services Link’s (WMSL) mission is to empower and ensure quality of support services to African Diaspora and African American families, especially individuals with disabilities, and health care needs.

Washington State NAACP Youth Council

Statewide,

Community Focus: Black American

Too often in public education, the voices of youth are excluded and the response to racism is little to no action. No longer. N-YC unites anti-racist youth across Washington into one coalition that demands a seat at the table. As Shirley Chisholm once said, “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” We are youth with representation at dozens of schools across several districts — with loads of folding chairs. It’s time not just for the youth to be at the table but for anti-racism to be at the top of the agenda.

Wonder of Women International

Seattle,

Community Focus: Black American, Gender
Geographic Region: Seattle Area
Women

Wonder of Women International is a movement organized to inspire Black women and girls to find their voice; stand in their truth and celebrate their wonder by telling their story.

Z-Twins Radio

Seattle,

Community Focus: Black American
Geographic Region: Seattle Area

Washington State’s only African American owned and operated radio stations serving the Northwest communities since 1984.

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