The landmarks preservation board meeting was held at the Seattle Municipal Tower on Wednesday February 5 to decide on a nomination as to whether or not the former Liberty Bank site at 2320 East Union Street, should be declared a Historic Preservation. And it was. A true success for Africatown.

Africatown community members Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Leith Kahl spoke before the panel and also presented a slide show. Both also made statements as to why Liberty Bank should become an historic landmark. Others from the central district community also made comments.

The landmarks preservation board members then heard comments and viewed a slide show presented by Capitol Hill Housing representatives.It was reported in the Central District News back on January 16, 2013 that Capitol Hill Housing had entered into an agreement with Key Bank, who had owned the building, and that CHH had planned to purchase the property and convert it into affordable housing.

The Africatown community then submitted information to the City of Seattle landmarks preservation board to consider a nomination for Liberty Bank

Liberty Bank was founded by James Purnell, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 84. Purnell was once president of the National Bankers Association and was an influential advocate for fairer banking services to minorities.

The building’s architect, Mel Streeter, was a well respected architect in Seattle and among the most prominent African-American architects in city’s history. His work can be seen at the African American Academy and John Muir Elementary School, among other places.

Members of Seattle’s Africatown attended the meeting to continue to advocate and preserve the cultural and historic fabric of the african american central district community, now known as ‘Africatown”.

Historic preservation, economy success, education, and cultural identity all make a substantial contribution to Seattle’s Africatown community.

The success of the nomination was the right thing to do.

It was the only thing to do.

Community. Culture.

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From the original post: So, just to make it clearer, I’m looking for the neighborhoods in your city where the self-consciously arty creative-class would-be bohemians congregate. Williamsburg went from a lower-middle and working-class immigrant neighborhood to a refuge for artists priced out of Manhattan to an expensive alt-yuppie neighborhood—it used to be the neighborhood where the cool young arty kids went; now it’s the neighborhood where the rich old arty kids go (and live). Bushwick is where the cool young arty kids go and live now; it’s somewhere on the back end of the “cheap artist refuge” stage of gentrifying neighborhoods.

Crazy short notice, but if you’d like to, please help us plan the Jackson Street Jazz Walk tomorrow night, Wednesday, January 29th. 6:30 pm at 733 25th Ave S.

Our second team is meeting tomorrow night at 6:30. (There will be more.) We have a little bit of grant money, some dedicated volunteers, and a couple bands signed up… but we could use more help, more music and more ideas for awesome.

Jackson Street Jazz Walk happens on April 5.

Join us! And if you can’t join us, but want to help out or have connections to musicians who would like to play, please feel free to drop me an email at [email protected].

Martin Luther King Jr’s march on Birmingham Alabama: The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.

Led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct actions culminated in widely publicized confrontations between black youth and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city’s discrimination laws.

The Documentary “Mighty Times:-The Childrens March” is apart of that early African American History.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 3PM & 5PM
@garfield community center IN HISTORIC AFRICATOWN

Come see the Academy Award Winning Film

*“Mighty Times-The Children’s March”

Come see how young people shut down a racist city

and changed its school and economy forever!

Two Screenings:
Saturday, February 1st, 3PM & 5PM
@garfield community center IN HISTORIC AFRICATOWN

2323 East Cherry Street
Sponsored by APRI, AALC and the More 4 Mann Coalition,labor donated.

Mighty Times: *The Children’s Crusade was the name bestowed upon a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 2, May 3, May 4, and May 5, 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement’s Birmingham Campaign.

WHAT:

Free, unlimited taxi rides for Seattleites this weekend! In honor of the Seahawks’ trip to Sunday’s Big Game, Flywheel (the taxi hailing mobile app) is offering fans FREE taxi rides from 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 1 through 11:59 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 2. No promo code is required and there is no limit to the number of rides you can take. Just download the Flywheel app and go! Rides are valid throughout the service areas (listed below) in greater Seattle, and costs are limited to $20 each.

Let us know where you’re heading @Flywheel_SEA on Twitter, and visit Flywheel at www.flywheel.com. Questions? Email [email protected].

WHEN:

9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 1 – 11:59 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 2

WHERE:

Free rides are valid for users via the Flywheel app throughout the following service areas: Auburn, Bellevue, Bothell, Burien, Covington, Des Moines, Edmonds, Everett, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, Kirkland, Lynnwood, Maple Valley, Mercer Island, Mountlake Northgate, Terrace, Puyallup, Redmond, Renton, SeaTac, Seattle, West Seattle, Shoreline, Tukwila and Woodinville.

ABOUT:

Flywheel, founded in 2009, has offices in San Francisco, the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Seattle. Flywheel is one of the first companies to apply mobile and real-time geolocation technology to bring on-demand hired rides to consumers’ smartphones. The Flywheel service includes a mobile app allowing consumers to order taxi rides in real-time, track their rides arrival via GPS and automatically pay their fare – they call this ‘No waving, no wondering, no wallet’! Flywheel’s Investors include Craton Equity Partners, RockPort Capital, Shasta Ventures and Sand Hill Angels.

Jimi Hendrix Park Foundation is thrilled to join Broadway Across America and Seattle Theatre Group, as a community partner, to promote Disney’s The Lion King. You can help support construction of the Park by seeing this awe-inspiring show when you purchase your ticket through our fundraiser.

March 12 – April 6, 2014

The Paramount Theatre

Pop Up Madrona

1429 34^TH Avenue, Seattle, WA  98122
206 239-8918
www.facebook.com/PopUpMadrona

Open through April, Pop Up Madrona is a shop featuring the work of four local artists. Operated as a collective, the artists sell their own work out of a tiny Madrona neighborhood storefront. Located across the street from the Hi-Spot Café on 34^th Ave, and next door to Ethan Stowell’s soon-to-open Red Cow.

On display from Artcycled you’ll see the jewelry and mosaics by Darcy Thompson created with reclaimed china dishes. Lysle Style designs fun and funky clothing for women and girls. Pillows from the workroom of Southend Design are made from designer fabrics. And from the studio Mary Margaret Briggs you’ll see botanical monotypes and studio printed note cards.

Featured for the month of January will be guest artist, Kate Hartley of Full Circle Studio, showing her collaged switch plates, and printed tea towels.

2014: The Year of Africatown!

Tomorrow Sat Jan 18, Africatown Center for Education & Innovation will be participating and presenting a vision for Africatown at the African American African Diaspora Gathering w/ Mayor Ed Murray at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute.

On MLK Monday Jan 20, Africatown Center for Education & Innovation will be participating in the School-To-Prison Pipeline at the annual Martin Luther King Day Event with Workshops, Rally & March at Garfield High School.