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October 16, 2026 - 12:00 pm

Tune in to Madinah in the Market every Friday around 12:50 on KBCS just after the latest episode of Travels with Rick Steves. In the Season 3 finale of Madinah In The Market, Rachel Ligtenberg, President & CEO of the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA), explores the power of community and the

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October 9, 2026 - 7:10 am

Men, we have a responsibility to challenge and call out other abusive men who resort to emotional and physical violence.

October 5, 2026 - 12:00 pm

Listening back to the work of former KBCS contributor Geov Parrish

October 2, 2026 - 11:30 am

Rachel Ligtenberg, President & CEO of the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA), discusses the institution’s historic character and the complexities of its modernization in this edition of Madinah In The Market LIVE.

October 2, 2026 - 7:30 am

We all adapt, but as a Black man, the weight of code switching on a regular basis can be significantly heavier.

September 25, 2026 - 12:09 pm

On Oct 1, 11,000 refugees, asylum seekers and other immigrants in Washington State are going to lose their health insurance according to the governor’s office.
And that includes hundreds of people who need round the clock care.
It’s because of HR 1, President Trump’s so-called big beautiful bill.
That federal bill cut a trillion dollars from Medicaid and other health programs and those cuts are going to roll out over the next ten years.
But these most vulnerable immigrants are the first group of people to be targeted.

September 25, 2026 - 9:21 am

Today my thoughts motivated me to write two poems. Both poems stem from my feeling about learning from history so that we don’t repeat the horrible mistakes of the past.

September 18, 2026 - 7:00 pm

I’m Kevin P. Henry, and this is Thinking Out Loud.   The Seahawks’ home opener kicked off with a bang last week, thanks to the Mwango Sisters, who delivered a powerful performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the Black National Anthem.    As expected, the Star Spangled Banner was also performed,

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September 18, 2026 - 12:30 pm

Chef Traci Calderon, Executive Chef and Owner of Atrium Kitchen, joins Madinah In The Market LIVE to discuss food, community, and the relationships that inform her work at Pike Place Market.

September 17, 2026 - 7:16 am

KBCS presents an excerpt of the new local podcast Ways of Awe. Created in Seattle by writers and translators Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, Ways of Awe is a “queer anti-Zionist audio companion for the Jewish High Holidays,”