Mayowa Aina

To Stephanie Bartella, the City of Tacoma's guaranteed income pilot program, seemed too good to be true. After being selected to participate, she had mixed emotions, including guilt and shame. Six months into the Growing Resilience In Tacoma program, she's reduced her debt, avoided taking on a second full-time job and says the biggest benefit is it's given her time back.

A new exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum, "GATHER: 27 Years of Hilltop Artists," brings together the work of 21 contemporary artists who were introduced to glass arts through the Hilltop Artists youth development program over the past few decades.

UW and Indiana University researchers tracked spikes in search terms online since Black Lives Matter protests began in 2014. Their findings are digital evidence of how the way communities talk about these issues has significantly changed as a direct result of the protests.

One image of a Black laborer in a lumber yard from 1940. A group photo from a unity event between Japanese-American soldiers and white soldiers at Fort Lewis taken two months before the Pearl Harbor attacks. These are some of the images surfaced by a new digital archive project in Tacoma.

The two-day event will include an interactive museum-like experience featuring a photo exhibit put together by Puyallup high school students who captured their local heroes. There will be live performances and African drumming, a discussion on Black mental and physical health, spotlights on Black businesses and a feature on local Black history in the military.

King County will no longer require COVID vaccination checks to enter restaurants, bars, theaters and gyms beginning March 1. Businesses, however, will be free to impose their own vaccination requirements if they choose, but there will be no countywide requirement.

Visitors to Tacoma's Eastside Community Center might notice some new artwork: a mural created to memorialize children from the community who died from gun violence. Full of bright yellows and vibrant blues and greens, "In Loving Memory" shows children dancing and playing.

I remember my first time reading bell hooks. ... I was a student at the University of Washington, and I had never encountered an academic text that was so understandable and intimate. She used personal experiences to talk about very abstract concepts. I didn't know you could do that as a respected academic.

Steady growth through social media, word of mouth, events and brand collaborations has turned eTc Tacoma’s clothes into a magnet for the city’s younger population, and the brand has grown to represent more than clothes.

The holiday season often means observing annual traditions among family, friends and community. For many, it’s a time to reconnect with and reflect on their faith. KNKX’s Mayowa Aina sent this audio postcard from Church by the Side of the Road in Tukwila, where the congregation is preparing for the annual Christmas musical.