City Gov 101
Name the number of council members in the City of Seattle.
What is 9 Council members?
In 1983, this street was renamed from Empire Way to ___.
Name this Seattle-bred politician and activist, former Black Panther Party member, former Executive Director of CAMP and served on King County's Council from 1994 to 2020. Also known for being a part of the "Gang of Four" or "Four Amigos," four activists from Indigenous, Black, Asian, and Latinx communities who founded Seattle's Minority Executive Director's Coalition.
Who is Larry Gossett?
This Seattle-bred artist painted Central District's Midtown Square Murals, a large mural featured in Belltown, and several other locations. His mission is to create impactful cultural art that not only beautifies the community but also serves as a source of inspiration and empowerment.
Who is Myron Curry?
The 1985 film tells the story of an impoverished Black woman’s four-decade journey to self-empowerment and freedom from abuse. Name the movie based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
What is The Color Purple (1985)?
Name the two Citywide Seattle Council Members.
Who is Sara Nelson and Alexis Mercedes Rinck?
Name the civil rights activist born in Mississippi who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, and who engaged in efforts to end the segregation of public facilities, and the enforcement of voting rights when he was assassinated in 1963.
(Hint: Seattle's public pool off 23rd is named after him).
Who is Medgar Evers?
Name the year the Seattle Black Panther Party was established.
What is 1968?
Name the Seattle book author of "Be a Revolution", recently published, "Do You Want to Talk about Race?", and "Mediocre."
Who is Ijeoma Oluo?
Name this 1974 American blaxploitation film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character who takes on a gang of drug dealers who murdered her boyfriend. The film uses Afrocentric references in clothing and hair.
What is Foxy Brown?
Identify which City Council meetings are open to the public.
What is all, except closed sessions?
Name the pharmacy previously located on Cherry St by Garfield HS.
What is Jordan's?
Name this local organization led by Executive Director Nikkita Oliver that focuses on building community with youth most impacted by the school to prison (deportation) pipeline.
What is Creative Justice?
Name this Seattle based Hip-Hop Artist rooted in the musical legacy of Seattle's Central District while standing firm on his rich Senegalese heritage.
Who is Yirim Seck?
Name the 2020 documentary directed by Seattle filmmaker & sociology professor Dr. Gilda Sheppard. The film tells the story of members of Washington State's Black Prisoner's Caucus.
What is Since I Been Down?
Name the current elected official who attends and presides over Council meetings, but does not vote (except in the case of a tie). This figure is also involved in setting City’s annual budget process.
Who is the Mayor (Bruce Harrell)?
Name the family-owned burger joint that was previously located on Union & 26th converted from a house.
What is Sammy's Burgers?
Name the family that founded the Seattle Medium newspaper.
Who are the Bennett's?
Name this nonprofit organization founded by Seattle native Keith Tucker in 2009 on his grandparents’ soil on Cherry street. Leading hip hop artists, food justice advocates, architects, climate change experts, and more to bring to life holistic wellness programs for young people. They are known for hosting Green dinners--a free vegetarian dinner for community youth featuring hip hop artists and other speakers.
What is Hip Hop Is Green?
Name the 1973 action crime–drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of Black militancy.
This film opened the Seattle Film Festival in 2007.
What is The Spook Who Sat By the Door?
Name this mechanism used by City Council to impose restrictions on how money is assigned to be used in the City's Budget. A ___ is also known as a condition attached to an agreement.
What is a proviso?
Name three of the four businesses previously located on the SW Corner of 23rd & Madison in the 1980s.
1. Pizza Hut
2. Planned Parenthood
3. Chester Dorsey's
4. Madison Temple Church of God
Name this Rainier Beach dance studio that trains Central and South Seattle youth in traditional black dance forms. Many dancers have gone on to perform on national & international stages with artists like Beyonce.
What is NW Tap Connection?
Name this artist who is one of the four founders of Wa Na Wari. They served as public art manager for the city’s Office of Arts and Culture and founded and operated Faire Gallery and Café before becoming Wa Na Wari’s curator.
Who is Elisheba Johnson?
Name this 1973 film starring Tamara Dobson portraying a Black federal agent who tries to free her framed boyfriend (Burnie Casey).
What is Cleopatra Jones?