Covered a live R&B experience took place in Seattle’s very own Columbia City at Black and Tan Hall, Converge Media’s Deaunte Damper attended the event where he caught up with Teme Wakoma, owner of Sankofa Theater and Spirit of Hooray Productions. An active advocate for showcasing Black art in Black spaces, Wakoma but on the event with extreme gratitude for Besa Gordon while honoring her late brother Elijah Lewis.

“I spoke earlier in the event that Black art is not always seen as fine art, so we’re not the first to be booked at Seattle Art Museum or any of these more upper echelon finer art spaces,” said Wakoma. “It was important to ground ourselves in who we are, Black and Tan has been working relentlessly to create a space that represents what we do and who we are as a BIPOC community.”