Race And Equity

Politics

Name changes and union changes, this week

Bill Radke reviews the week's news with South Seattle Emerald publisher Marcus Green, Q13 reporter Jennifer Lee, and The C is For Crank publisher Erica C. Barnett.

Law & Courts

Police to train on intervening in Washington state. ‘You owe it to your partner’

New laws and training in WA are the result of Black Lives Matter marches that have swept the state and country.

Politics

Friday politics: What a Juneteenth holiday could teach everyone

June 19 could be on its way to becoming a national corporate holiday.

Race & Identity

Protest Book Club: Great reads for change with Seattle's hip-hop professor

Dr. Daudi Abe along with KUOW's Ross Reynolds and public radio listeners explore recommendations for revolutionary reads.

Politics

Seattle police union tossed out of King County labor council

The King County labor council threw out the Seattle police officers union in a contentious vote Wednesday night.

Seattle Now: Back home for Juneteenth

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, the unofficial holiday celebrating the day that slavery ended in the United States. Seattle native Eula Scott Bynoe tells us about her family’s connection to the holiday, and what’s changed and hasn’t changed for Seattle’s historic Black community.

Arts & Life

'Cheering yes!' This Seattle poet believes this time may be different

In the late 1960s, poet Colleen McElroy taught speech and hearing sciences at Western Washington University.

Race & Identity

Seattle Police Chief Best says policing must change but defends tear gas use

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said Tuesday that she's open to more community involvement in reform efforts after weeks of protests over police use of deadly force.

Race & Identity

From CHAZ to CHOP: Seattle protest makes a change

It was a busy weekend in Seattle for antiracism protests. And that six-block area on Capitol Hill called the CHAZ? Well, people are still there. But they've given the area a new name. Report Casey Martin laid out the reasons with KUOW’s Angela King.

Race & Identity

Seattle Now: What's going on in Capitol Hill?

The round-the-clock protest for Black lives known as CHAZ (or is it CHOP?) has been at it for a week and counting outside the city's East Precinct. How long will it go? KUOW's Casey Martin gives us the view from the ground.