Date posted: March 7, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
Over 120 farmworkers gathered at the 11th annual Farmworkers Tribunal in Olympia on Jan. 23. They spoke to legislators about their personal experiences with their work. Listen in on what they said and what bills they supported. (more…)
Date posted: March 6, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
Listen in on Writer, Speaker and Internet Yeller, Ijeoma Oluo speak with WA ACLU Executive Director, Michele Storms at Town Hall Seattle in February. (more…)
Date posted: March 1, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
Listen to an interview about its beginnings of the Poor People's Campaign, started by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and revived in 2018. The campaign will hold a rally for a moral revival to address the needs of people in poverty this Saturday. (more…)
Date posted: February 29, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
What do you do when you feel harmed by power dynamics at work, school or even at home? Michelle Strange is the Director of BC Restorative Practices and describes what that looks like at an institution. (more…)
Date posted: February 29, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
The ‘Gang of Four’ is a group of four Seattle activists from Indigenous, Black, Asian, and Latinx communities who organized together from the 60's onward. The last remaining member, Larry Gossett reflects on what they did. (more…)
Date posted: February 23, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
A highlight of the work of American Psychologist, Mamie Phipps Clark. (more…)
Date posted: February 15, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
This month in 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which began the process to forcibly remove and incarcerate over 120,000 Japanese Americans in the US. Today, some of the former incarcerates and their descendants speak out. (more…)
Date posted: January 12, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
MLK Day was founded as the only federal holiday designated as a day of service in honor of the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. It’s referred to as a ‘day on, not day off’. Find out about one of the largest gatherings each MLK day in our region. (more…)
Date posted: January 12, 2024 Author: Yuko Kodama
Listen to local griots who will be performing this Saturday at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center talk about their background and intentions in their storytelling. (more…)
Date posted: December 14, 2023 Author: Yuko Kodama
The Houston family is seeking reparations from Renton School District in what they say was an unfair acquisition of their family’s former land in Renton. They were part of a vibrant Black community there in the 1950s. (more…)
