City Gov 101
Name the new City of Seattle politician who announced a “Taller, Denser, Faster” resolution to fast track denser housing in Seattle.
Who is Mayor Katie Wilson?
Name this precedent setting legislation that was designed to reduce the racial disparity in homeownership caused by the State’s participation in discriminatory practices such as redlining, racially restrictive covenants, and other forms of housing discrimination. The lawsuit challenging the legislation was recently denied.
What is the Covenant Homeowner Program?
Name this organizer who has more than 28 years of public service, civic leader, and creative entrepreneur. He is widely recognized for founding Seaspot Media Group, amplifying Black culture and community; and Black Legacy Homeowners (BLH), a network dedicated to preserving and expanding Black homeownership.
Who is Chukundi Salisbury?
Name the Wa Na Wari program that is hosting this dinner (acronym acceptable).
What is CACE 21 (Central Area Cultural Ecosystem for the 21st century)?
Name this American romantic sports drama by Gina Prince-Bythewoood from 2000. It was produced by Spike Lee and Sam Kit and stars Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, and Alfre Woodard, with Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union and Debbi Morgan in supporting roles.
Name the newly elected City Council President, voted by their colleagues to replace CM Sara Nelson.
2027 marks a long session for the Washington State legislature. Long sessions are every other year. Name the number of days in a long session.
What is 105 days?
Name this Black Seattle community organizer born in Compton, CA and Seattle University grad. With a passion for food justice and experience working with youth in Central & South Seattle—he was the operations director for CAMP (Central Area Motivation Program) in the 90s; led residents to create Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands (RBUFW) in 2010; and is now a founding member of RBAC (Rainier Beach Action Coalition).
Who is Gregory Davis?
Name Wa Na Wari’s oral history training program. Over the course of two years, a community cohort works with a faculty of Black oral historians, archivists, geographers, librarians, and artists to learn and explore the ethics, techniques, and dilemmas of community-based oral history and Black memory work. Graduates of SBSHI are now working with CACE21 to record and activate oral histories conducted with legacy Black homeowners.
What is The Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute (SBSHI) ?
Name this 2018 American biographical crime film directed by Spike Lee, loosely based on the 2014 memoir by Ron Stallworth set in the 1970s in Colorado Springs. The film stars John David Washington. It features Harry Belafonte's last performance before his death in April 2023.
What is BlacKkKlansman?
Name the number of council member votes are needed to pass a bill or amendment.
What is 5 Council member votes to pass a bill?
Name this African-American legislator who is a politician who has served as the King County Executive since 2025. He was formerly a member of the King County Council from District 2. He was elected to King County Council in 2019.
Who is Girmay Zahilay?
Name this activist, organizer, & beloved community member who grew up in Seattle’s Central District. She started her organizing career with Jobs with Justice and Mothers for Police Accountability, and is now a leader of Whose Streets Our Streets. She has worked closely with countless of organizations on Economic Justice, Housing, Immigration, Police Accountability, and Transportation.
Who is KL Shannon?
Name the method of collecting data CACE 21 research team uses to assess their greatest needs and challenges for homeowners. The __ informs our organizing work to preserve Black owned homes in the Central District & South Seattle.
What is the CACE 21 Black Homeowner Survey (socio-economic survey)?
Name this 1986 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Spike Lee in his feature-length directorial debut. The film follows a young woman who is dating three men and explores the feelings this arrangement provokes. A streaming television series adaptation, created and directed by Lee, debuted on Netflix in 2017.
What is She Gotta Have It?
Name this state mandated roadmap that dictates City zoning, development, and land-use for the next 20 years. We’re currently in phase II in Seattle.
What is the Comprehensive Plan (or the "One Seattle Plan")?
Name this recently passed legislation that was recently codified by Gov Ferguson this past Spring. It increases the number of people who qualify for tax relief, allows for deductions for rental income from primary homes, excludes combat pay from the income calculation for veterans, and introduces a standard income deduction of $7,500.
What is the Senior Tax exemption?
Name this awarded Seattle researcher, writer, publisher and expert on the history of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest. Her first book, Seattle's Black Victorians 1852-1901, published in 1980, established her as a serious historian. ___ has served as a member of the Washington State Women's History Consortium, member of Seattle's Landmark Board, Board of the Pacific Northwest Historians' Guild, Northwest African American Museum Program Committee, and the Wing Luke Immersion Committee.
Who is Esther Mumford?
Name all four members of the Black Homeowner Policy Council.
Who is Anita Adams, Ebony Arunga, Lois Martin, & Teya Williams?
Name this 1990 American dramatic film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also wrote, produced, and directed. It follows a period in the life of fictional jazztrumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Washington) as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardizing both his relationships and his playing career. The film was released five months after the death of Robin Harris and is dedicated to his memory, being his final acting role.
What is Mo’ Better Blues?
Name this commonly used term in urban planning that describes a change to land-use code to allow greater capacity for development. ___ usually indicates more building density, increase in land value, which increases taxes.
What is upzoning?
Name this state law adopted in 2025, that requires developments near most forms of public transportation must be allowed increased residential densities and building heights, among other requirements. This law will impact Judkins park in the CD.
What is Transit Oriented Development?
Name the first elected African-American mayor who served as the 49th mayor of Seattle, Washington, serving two terms from 1990 to 1997. His accomplishments on the Finance and Budget Committee included the passage of the Women and Minority Business Enterprise Ordinance, and from 1982 to 1987, the elimination of City investments in firms doing business in apartheid-era South Africa.
Who is Mayor Norman Rice?
Name the two-day art fair and cultural gathering celebrating Black artists across the diaspora that occurred last weekend. Presented by Wa Na Wari in partnership with the Northwest African American Museum, ___ brings together artists, collectors, and community in a shared space to connect, celebrate, and invest in Black creative futures.
What is Black Graduation?
Name Spike Lee’s debut student film made in 1983. Lee submitted the film as his master's degree thesis at the Tisch School of the Arts.
What is Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads?