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February 19, 2021 - 8:54 am
How does US government mandated incarceration of tens of thousands of families have long term impacts on communities?
Today is the Day of Remembrance. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible removal and incarceration of 110,000 people of Japanese descent. The Densho Project collects oral histories of those impacted by this act. Densho Project Founding Member, Tom Ikeda shares some takeaways of what he has witnessed.
This is an excerpt of a KBCS interview recorded in February of 2020.
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February 11, 2021 - 11:51 pm
Scattered along the coast of West Africa are old buildings – remains of slave castles from the former slave trade. The late Reverend Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney, a 40-year pastor of Mt Zion Baptist Church in Seattle’s Central District visited some of the slave castles on a trip with a group of ministers in the 1970’s. He reflects on what he saw, and the impact it had on two different groups with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama.
Since 2015, local photographer, Nate Gowdy has been working on a personal project to document the Trump era’s political campaigns and culture. His photos will be compiled in a book titled,
Vote American! Presidential Politics and Protest in the Age of Trump. Gowdy has travelled across the country to cover political rallies and events. Last Wednesday (January 6, 2021), he was in Washington DC to document the atmosphere around the Congressional confirmation of electoral votes for Rolling Stone. The day was interrupted by a mob attack on the country’s capitol building. Gowdy shares his experiences there with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama.
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2021 KBCS Spring Fund Drive
Today only, when you become a monthly sustaining donor at $5/month or make a one-time donation of $60, we ll thank you with a bag of fairly-traded coffee from our Partners at Equal Exchange! Make sure to select that you would like coffee as your thank you gift on the donation page.
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December 23, 2020 - 2:37 am
Seattle’s Central District was shaped by racist real estate and financial practices, but kept vibrant and loved by its Black residents. The neighborhood is now a shadow of its former self. Houses in this neighborhood are selling for at least a million dollars today, with property taxes shooting up each year. Many of the former residents have been priced out of living there.
Inye Wokoma is a Media Maker and Co-Founder of Wa Na Wari, a Black cultural arts center in the Central District. Wa Na Wari is housed in his family home. Wokoma describes why it’s important for him to fight to stay in the neighborhood, and how his journey is part of a movement to resist the erasure of the foundations of the community.