How roughly $900K in the state capital budget could preserve Black history in Tacoma
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 3 hrs ago Matt Driscoll, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Apr. 16 The words are as powerful and prescient now as they were back then. Courage is the saving grace in this tense world racial situation, Tacoma s Nettie Asberry told The News Tribune. Courage of the white people who dare to show their fairness by helping us achieve positions of human dignity, and courage of those of other races who risk insults by quietly asserting their rights as human beings.
Asberry s remarks came during a time of stark racial discrimination and long boiling tensions across the United States, much like today. But they were made in 1961, during her 96th year, articulating a struggle she knew all too well. An article in this newspaper described Asberry as a Black woman with a doctorate in music who among other accomplishments founded the first chapter of the NA
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by Jasmyne Keimig • Jan 8, 2021 at 5:00 pm
2021 is already getting weird. Screenshot from TVWWhile the other Washington is still in the grips of dealing with the fallout of the siege of the Capitol building, legislators in our Washington virtually took their oaths of office this afternoon. Sponsored Tickets $15-$250. Aphrodesia delivery menu, incredible auction items, live streamed performances.
In three separate ceremonies, newly elected and reelected representatives and senators stood in front of their screens, held up their right hand, and promised to uphold the laws and constitution of both the United States and Washington state. It was a strange sight, but no stranger than the times we are living in.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) Washington state will welcome several first-time lawmakers this year for the legislative session expected to begin Monday, including the state's first Black senator in 10 years. T’wina Nobles is scheduled to be sworn in as a state senator on Friday, and is expected to start her new role on Monday, KING-TV reported. “Being the only current Black member of the state Senate and the first in 10 years, means I have a great.