As gentrification continues to impact central Seattle, UW history professor emeritus Quintard Taylor's The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era receives a timely second edition printing. The fresh edition aims to heighten historical awareness with added forewords by historian Qun’Nita Cobbins-Modica and former Seattle mayor Norm Rice, and an afterword by Albert S. Broussard, author of Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954. This new edition of Taylor's book is well-deserved; the first edition inspired the creation of the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas, a nonprofit arts organization.