Marian Mohamed

1 week ago | realchangenews.org | Marian Mohamed

Wa Na Wari’s art and community space is filled this month with intricate pieces made by incarcerated members of the Black Prisoners Caucus (BPC). The sound of a distorted voice pulls me up the stairs of the gallery that lives inside the Central District craftsman house. I follow the voice up the stairs, into a pink room that is empty except for a brown leather bench and TV perched high in the corner, framed by lush green trees growing outside the windows.

1 week ago | realchangenews.org | Marian Mohamed

It’s a significant year for Kimisha Turner, an artist known for her intricate and thought-provoking artwork, as this is the fifth year since she and other local artists created the Black Lives Matter mural in Capitol Hill. Turner was among many artists from the Vivid Matter Collective, an artist organization based in Seattle, who created the vivid statement while demonstrations took place around them in 2020.

1 month ago | realchangenews.org | Marian Mohamed

The Trump administration’s funding cuts are impacting university researchers throughout the country. At the University of Washington (UW), researchers are scrambling to preserve their work due to new policies passed by the administration that withhold National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. In February, the Trump administration passed a policy that lowered the NIH’s funding for indirect costs — like those that support institutions to maintain labs — to 15%.

2 months ago | realchangenews.org | Marian Mohamed

The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Pioneer Square is safe, despite the Trump administration’s best efforts. Historic Seattle, which owns the building, extended its lease last month, even though it was listed as one of the 34 National Park Service (NPS) locations the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) decided to close.

2 months ago | realchangenews.org | Marian Mohamed

On April 5, more than 5,000 people gathered at the state’s capitol to participate in the nationwide “Hands-Off” protest, The Olympian reported.