A decade-long community effort to honor the legacy of Seattle’s Black Panther Party culminated Sunday with the opening of Black Panther Park, a space rooted not only in history, but in the enduring power of community, resistance and self-determination.
The park, developed through a collaboration between Nurturing Roots, King County Parks and Stone Soup Gardens, reflects years of organizing, community input and persistence aimed at reclaiming space and preserving cultural history in one of the region’s most diverse and historically under-resourced neighborhoods.
For Nyema Clark, founder and director of Nurturing Roots, the project began as an opportunity to create something meaningful for the community and quickly evolved into a vision rooted in legacy…