Not in your history book: When white strikers abducted black workers on a Seattle streetcar Horace Cayton was an African-American sociologist born in Seattle in 1903. His father was born a slave; his mother was the daughter of the first black U... Horace Cayton Jr.
‘We caught this kind of lightning in a bottle’: An Obama White House memoir Ben Rhodes was a 24-year-old aspiring writer living in New York on 9/11. What happened that day made him want to be part of the response. As you’ll hear... John O'Brien
POLAROIDS: How Seattle's signature hot dog got its cream cheese Mara Dillinger stood at a hot dog cart in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, eating her fourth hot dog of the night. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Love letters to a past and future assassin "In a second I'll tell you how little writing rescues." That promise, from the opening poem of Terrance Hayes' "American Sonnets for My Past and Future... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Ghosts of Japanese internment rise from Supreme Court travel ban ruling On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s latest travel ban that barred people entering the U.S. from five majority Muslim countries... Bill Radke
The U.S. government has forcibly separated families before. Here are 4 other times Un-American: A word being used to describe the separations of children from their parents at the Mexican border. History, however, suggests this is very... Isolde Raftery
Seattle's newest landmark: Mount Zion Baptist Church What started in the 19th Century as a group of people holding church services in their homes, grew into the city's largest African American congregation... Paige Browning
Eat. Pray. Truck. How a Northwest tribe brings salmon home The Puyallup Tribe welcomed the first salmon of the year back to the Puyallup River in Tacoma on Tuesday. Strangely, perhaps, that chinook's epic... John Ryan
The tragic reason Seattle Center never got a SeaWorld Fifty years ago, Seattle was trying to decide what do with its center attraction in the wake of the World’s Fair. One man came forward with the idea of... Kara McDermott
These 3 dishes from JuneBaby recall history of the Deep South Chef Edouardo Jordan brought major gold home to Seattle this week by winning two James Beard Awards. One for Best Northwest Chef, a recognition of his... Brie Ripley
