Joining Trae Holiday on The Day With Trae is Dr. Margaret Towolawi, a physician and the founder and director of both the Nurture Well Center, a direct primary care practice, and SkinStatMD, a dermatology clinic where she specializes in lifestyle medicine. With a background in general practice and obstetrics, she now focuses on a newer approach to healthcare. Her work in lifestyle medicine focuses on six components: Plant-based nutrition, stress reduction, healthy sleep, exercise, reduction of substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and maintaining and building social connections to prevent, treat, and reverse disease. 

Joining host Trae Holiday on The Day With Trae is Shamso Issak, the Founder and Executive Director of Living Well Kent. This organization is dedicated to empowering Kent and South King County residents, focusing on refugees and immigrants from non-English speaking backgrounds by equipping them with the essential tools to navigate and thrive within their community. Drawing from her experiences as an immigrant from Somalia, Issak's journey has been a foundation builder for her organization.

On Thursday, February 28, Kiesha Garrison, the CEO and founder of Hey, Black Seattle!, stopped by The Day with Trae for a conversation about her site with host Trae Holiday. Originally from Louisiana, Garrison brings 15 years of experience in media publishing and technology to her platform. Having previously worked as the Microsoft AI platform engineering team's Director of Culture and Communications, she witnessed firsthand how large companies utilize technology to create innovative solutions to address challenges across various sectors. Using her skills and expertise, she transitioned her expertise into Hey, Black Seattle! and developed a medium focused on forging relationships throughout Seattle's Black community.

Africatown Community Land Trust will host its annual State of Africatown on March 2. The event has been running for the last decade, serving as a platform for community voices to discuss issues facing Seattle's Central District. With a focus on strengthening the Black Community amidst challenges like gentrification and resident displacement, the event emphasizes initiatives to promote neighborhood security. Kennesha Poe-Buycks, the Communications & Marketing Manager of the ACLT, and Jacqueline Armstrong, Vice Chair of the organization's board, stopped by The Day with Trae to talk about the event.   

This Wednesday on The Day With Trae, host Trae Holiday welcomed director and co-founder of Acts on Stage Theatre, Isiah Anderson Jr., alongside Moses Masith, one of the stars in Anderson's production, "King X: The Meeting." This theatrical showcase delves into a fictionalized conversation between two iconic figures, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday and Anderson discuss the creative journey behind the play's inception while Masith shares his journey in bringing Dr. King to life on stage.

This week on The Day with Trae, Converge's Menopause Mentor Danyale Thomas returned for another Menopause Monday to discuss with host Trae Holiday about different supplements that can help combat specific symptoms of Menopause, particularly weight gain.

This week on "The Day With Trae," your host, Trae Holiday, journeys into the world of hair and beauty as she interviews an array of hairstylists, beauticians, and makeup artists who will participate in the Reign of Style competition. This annual competition based in the Northwest is a platform where industry specialists converge to flaunt their beauty and hair styling expertise, contending for reward cash, prizes, and the chance to elevate their brands.

Last week on The Day with Trae, host Trae Holiday sat down with Jacquelyn Howard, a co-founder of Stand With Black Women- WA, a movement and group focused on advocating for Black women within the state and beyond. Howard explains to Holiday the campaign's origins and its most recent activity of writing a love letter for Dr. Claudine Gay.

Recently on The Day with Trae, Logic Amen, an Artist, advocate, writer, and educator, came to the Black Media Matters Studio to talk about the work and history of his organization, the Griot Party. The Griot Party, founded in 2016, is a 'hip hop spoken word storytelling theatre' and collective made up of storytellers and artists focused on community healing, which most recently invited attendees to partake in the 'The Griot Party Experience' at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute this past January. 

Trae Holiday sat down with Federal Way-based community leader and author Evan Cook to discuss his work with you in South King County, his impact on the City of Federal Way, and his most recent book 'How My Soul Speaks.'

Trae Holiday sat down with Sam Cho, the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Office of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, and Ollie Garrett, the President and CEO of Tabor 100. Both the City of Seattle and Tabor 100 are core partners in Seattle's Liberty Project, a program and component of Mayor Harrell's Downtown Activation Plan created in 2023 that focuses on aiding local businesses from underrepresented communities, particularly BIPOC, to grow in revenue and expand both business ventures and properties. 

Last week on The Day with Trae, guest host Deaunte Damper sat down with Seattle-based poet and author Darryl Foto to discuss his career and showcase Foto's poetry in a live studio performance. Foto also talked about his work at A Space Inside, where he hosts Poetry and Sip, a spoken word and poetry open mic held on the last Friday of every month.

Last week on The Day with Trae, guest host Deaunte Damper sat down with Eleuthera Lisch, the Director of the King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention. In this episode, Damper and Lisch discuss the current state of gun violence within the United States and what actions are being implemented to deter it.

Last week on The Day with Trae, guest host Deaunte Damper sat down with Jessie Howard, the Director of Community Engagement at the Therapy Fund Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit focused on "eliminating barriers to Black healing" and providing mental health services and resources for the Black community, free of charge. Recently, the organization partnered with Pierce County Health Department to provide mental health services for youth who are being directly affected by the Fentanyl crisis. 

Last week on The Day with Trae, guest host Deaunte Damper sat down with Kisa Dupe, the recent recipient of the 2024 Miss Washington HBCU teen title. In this episode, Dupe tells Damper about her experience participating in the Miss HBCU Teen pageant, a program and competition focused on providing scholarships and resources to high school girls of color who intend to attend an HBCU. Dupe was recently accepted into Spelman College.

There is a saying at Converge Media that "The uplift is real" and nothing epitomizes this phrase more than the consistent uplift of Black-owned businesses across our region by TraeAnna Holiday and her show The Day with Trae on Converge Media and Besa Gordon and her show Back2Besa on KCPQ FOX13 Seattle. Episode after episode there is a consistent and intentional uplift of Black-owned businesses across our region, especially Black woman-owned businesses.

Dr. Jeffrey Duchin, chief health officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County, explained to TraeAnna Holiday, host of The Day with Trae what you can do to protect yourself from the current uptick in COVID-19 cases throughout King County. According to the King County COVID-19 trends, COVID-19 cases began rising in November and have gradually increased.

Deaunte Damper makes his 2024 return to the Black Media Matters Studios next week as he fills in for TraeAnna Holiday on her show The Day With Trae. Damper will be guest-hosting Monday, January 29 - Wednesday, January 31st with Trae Holiday returning on Thursday, February 1st.

This week on the Day with Trae, host Trae Holiday sat down and talked to Melany Bell, a Seattle-based poet and writer from the African American Writers' Alliance (AAWA), and Tha Def Chef, a chef focused on giving back to the community through delicious food. Both guests and your host are ambassadors for the Covenant, a collective of anti-racist & anti-bias community organizers whose mission is to uplift the black community locally and globally. One of their main goals is the commitment to ending gun violence.

This Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Black Heritage Society of Washington State (BHS) and the Black Genealogy Research Group (BGRG) of Seattle will be hosting a workshop entitled "The Power of Black Narratives: Claiming Your Story" at 9:15 a.m. on the Garfield High School campus in the Central District of Seattle. In the video below, you can learn more about the workshops from Stephanie Johnson-Toliver from the BHS and Brenetta James from BGRG, as they explain the importance of not only learning our history but documenting and memorializing it.